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Preparing for a death feast [B 56981/130] • Photograph

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Summary

Papuans 'preparing for a death feast, the ghost like figures are the chief mourners plastered all over with a grey coloured mud'.

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Physical description

Photograph (b&w print); 6.3 cm x 8.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1931

Collection

Part of Album Collection

Subject

Papuans

Catalogue record

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General notes

One of 271 photographs in two albums containing views of the Anglican New Guinea Mission in Papua, where Lilla Lashmar worked as a missionary until being executed by the Japanese in 1942.

Digitisation information

Date

20/06/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,564 x 2,523 pixels (9.0 MP)

Size

27.01 MB

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