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Object Number 2004.29.22725
Display Title Portrait of two tattooed girls
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea (British) / Papua / Collingwood Bay / Uiaku Village / Village of Uiaku, Collingwood Bay / Papua (British New Guinea) / Stetson Fund, June 1911. / Tattooed girls- Uiaku."
Department Photographic
Date 1885-1911
Culture
  • New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / Oro Province
Additional Geographic Terms Uiaku Village, Collingwood Bay
Dimensions Overall: 10.795 × 15.24 cm (4 1/4 × 6 in.)

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