IDNO

T.68622.MFL

Description

The linguist T. Wayne Dye standing holding a camera and looking off to the left. Immediately behind him is a boy holding a baby. Two women wearing grass skirts and necklaces are looking towards Dye. Beside them is standing a young Western boy of ?two or ?three years old. A very young local girl is looking at the camera with her arms folded. The residential house in the background to the left has a sago-plam leaf thatch roof and bark walls. [Mark Elliott 04/03/04]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; East Sepik; Wagu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

T. Wayne Dye

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Summer Institute of Linguistics

Date

10 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.68614 to T.68623 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/58/.

These photographs were probably taken during a field research trip by researchers from the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Among the members of the expedition are Patricia K Townsend, William H Townsend and T Wayne Dye. An initial report on the research is given by Dye, Townsend and Townsend (1968) [Mark Elliott 04/03/04].

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 27/02/04].