Black-and-white print

Museum number:
13-5356
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2006
Description:
A subclan chief appropriately dressed & carrying the proper paraphenalia for performanceof a magical rite to ensure the successful trading of arm-shells for pigs.
Donor:
Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Verbatim coll. place:
Melanesia
Production place:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Maker or artist:
Bronislaw Malinowski
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski
Collection date:
ca. 1914
Place depicted:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Still and motion photography
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-5356, described as A subclan chief appropriately dressed & carrying the proper paraphenalia for performanceof a magical rite to ensure the successful trading of arm-shells for pigs.

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