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Object Number
2004.29.23266
Display Title
Group of women and children inside forest enclosure
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "New Hebrides / Malakula Isl. / Melanesia / Big Nambas Women / It was difficult to get photographs of the men / and the women could only be photographed surreptitiously."
Department
Photographic
Culture
- Malekula
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Vanuatu
/
<State>
/
Malakula Island
Oceania / Vanuatu
Oceania / Vanuatu
Dimensions
Overall: 17.78 × 23.495 cm (7 × 9 1/4 in.)
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| 2004.29.23268 | Man and three boys standing |
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| 2004.29.23267 | Men standing next to a tree |
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| 2004.29.23263 | Man standing in the doorway of a sacred house |
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| 967-12-70/10878.1.21 | Man sitting inside small village hut |
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| 967-12-70/10878.1.13 | Two women in front of hut |
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| 967-12-70/10878.1.19 | Back of men's hut |
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Vanuatu | ||
| 967-12-70/10878.1.4 | Group of men in a semi-hypnotic trance during Nimangki dances |
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| 967-12-70/10878.1.23 | Carved fern projection from roof beam of men's hut |
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| 967-12-70/10878.1.3 | Dances associated with Nimangki (men's society) |
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