Set of numbered prints captioned Manners and Customs and Types of Costume.

Individual and group portraits showing dress, hairstyles etc. Groups include: dancing men; Thursday Island dancers. People include: man with drum; patriarch of Urama village; garden sorcerer; Torres Strait man wearing Darii national headdress. Activities include: carrying babies in bags. Places or b...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 12
Date(s) of creation: c.1920 - c.1950
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.19.10.01.059
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 12
callnumber CWM/LMS/19/10/01/059
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/19/10/01/059
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/19/10/01/059
prefix_number 059
scb_previous_numbers e
title Set of numbered prints captioned Manners and Customs and Types of Costume.
scb_date_creation c.1920 - c.1950
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 60 silver gelatin and printing-out paper prints
format Archive
description Individual and group portraits showing dress, hairstyles etc. Groups include: dancing men; Thursday Island dancers. People include: man with drum; patriarch of Urama village; garden sorcerer; Torres Strait man wearing Darii national headdress. Activities include: carrying babies in bags. Places or buildings include: interior of dubu captioned "men's club" Also includes: ceremonial shields; shrines with skulls; headhunters trophies; crocodile skulls; fetish statues; kovave mask. Pictures taken by/received from: Ben T Butcher; stills from Frank Hurley's film "Pearls and Savages".
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Council for World Mission and others
scb_file_number 59
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0019.0010.0001.00059