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Object Number 2004.29.23267
Display Title Men standing next to a tree
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Hebrides / Malakula Isl. / Big Nambas."
Department Photographic
Culture
  • Malekula
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Vanuatu
Oceania / Vanuatu / <State> / Malakula Island
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 × 23.495 cm (7 × 9 1/4 in.)

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Malakula Island
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Carved fern projection from roof beam of men's hut
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Malakula Island
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Malakula Island
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Back of men's hut
967-12-70/10878.1.19 Back of men's hut
Malakula Island
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967-12-70/10878.1.4 Group of men in a semi-hypnotic trance during Nimangki dances
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