IDNO

T.68632.MFL

Description

A close-up view of the central ridge pole of the roof of a men’s house. The mask faces carved onto the pole in an alternating sequence of inversions; every other face upside down from the point of view of the camera. The figures resemble the nokwi and minja figures of the Kwoma area [Andrew Moutu 19/02/04].

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; East Sepik; Near Ambunti; ?Maio

Cultural Affliation

Kwoma

Named Person

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.68624 to T.68639 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/59/.

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].