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