Manners and Customs (General)

Groups include: line of Orangerie girls in traditional dress. People include: profile portrait of man with elongated earlobes and comb in hair; full length outdoor portrait of man, captioned "Conceit"; various portraits of men and women in traditional dress including "Two dandies from Motumotu"; Yul...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 10
Date(s) of creation: c.1890 - c.1920
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 10
Summary: Groups include: line of Orangerie girls in traditional dress. People include: profile portrait of man with elongated earlobes and comb in hair; full length outdoor portrait of man, captioned "Conceit"; various portraits of men and women in traditional dress including "Two dandies from Motumotu"; Yule Island boy on walkabout for wife, bound around stomach to denote small appetite, wife will not have to work hard to feed him. Activities include: woman enacting ritual. Also includes: drying human head; dancing mask; decorated skull, from Rev Thomas William Ingram at Port Moresby; "Smoking human remains" [artificial].
Extent: 17 unmounted silver gelatin and printing out paper prints
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright holder unknown, possibly Council for World Mission
File number: 30
Format: Archive