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...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 12 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
c.1920 - c.1950 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 12 |
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| Summary: |
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". |
| Previous numbers: |
e |
| Extent: |
60 silver gelatin and printing-out paper prints |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright held by Council for World Mission and others |
| File number: |
59 |
| Format: | Archive |