IDNO

T.68637.MFL

Description

Two shields lying on the veranda inside a house. The one carved with an array of colours is a variant of the more elaborate art forms found amongst the Kwoma. Next to the two shields are containers made from black palm known in Tok Pisin as limbum. [Andrew Moutu 19/02/04]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; East Sepik; Wogamush River; Sio

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Summer Institute of Linguistics

Date

11 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].

Tok Pisin is the Melanesian lingua franca, invented as a creole but gaining popularity as a national language with variations found in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu [Andrew Moutu 19/02/04].

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