IDNO

T.68607.MFL

Description

The embers of a fire smouldering in a large fragment of a [?sago] pot, on the floor of an unfinished house. The potsherd has a scalloped edge with three lines of an undulating wavelike pattern running along the edge. [?Photograph taken in the same house depicted in T.68605 - T. 68608] A man is sitting on two horizontal poles at the top of the image, wearing shorts and with a bandage on his right knee. A young boy is standing in front of him. [Mark Elliott 12/03/04]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; East Sepik; Malu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

9 June 1967

Collection Name

Macfarlane Collection

Source

Macfarlane, Alan

Format

Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.67481 to T.68999 and T.74937 to T.74998 were found in the box now numbered C494/.
T.68591 to T.68613 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/57/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 15/03/04].