IDNO

P.4913.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Two men in fighting kit.

Two warrior in cuirass (armour) holding sharks' teeth swords. The man on the left wears a plaited coir (coconut fibre) armour consisting of a te tuta (short shirt or jersey) with diamond-shaped motifs probably worked in black human hair, trousers, and a te otana (cuirass), which has a back plate that protected the head and neck from coral rocks; and a helmet (te barantauti) made of inflated porcupine fish skin. The man on the right wears a te tuta over a belt with strips attached, and a te barantauti. The men are standing in front of a printed studio backdrop. [JD 22/3/2011]

Place

Oceania Micronesia; Kiribati [Gilbert Islands]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 30/10/2012]

This catalogue record was updated with the support of the Getty Grant Foundation [Mark Elliott 27/4/2004]