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Village men [B 56981/138] • Photograph

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Summary

'Village men in their dancing finery, taking home timber to make a feast platform. There were quite a crowd of them but the others are on the bridge and you can't see them. One man has a New Guinea drum, also a big trade knife for cutting down timber. The patches on the body are a grey mud'.

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Physical description

Photograph (b&w print); 10.6 cm x 6.3 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

2,086 x 3,459 pixels (7.2 MP)

Size

21.68 MB

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