IDNO

LS.120632.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "M.N.G.
Men’s house. Tamara Is. Berlin hafen. K-W Land.
Men’s house - "Alol". Separate for each clan or family.
Painted walls. Small painted pots hanging from borders of roof. Skulls of dead preserved here. No women allowed. Fresh ?grave, w. "Atap" roof in foreground.
M & P. II. 16." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; north-eastern New Guinea; Tamara Island [Mandated Territory of New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Meyer & Parkinson [Author]

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1894

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Album von Papúa-Typen ... / hrsg. von A.B. Meyer und R. Parkinson. (Dresden : Stengel, 1894). [JD 4/2/2013]

Publication: Meyer & Parkinson Papua-album II.
A sequel to Album von Papua-typen. New Guinea und Bismarck archipel, issued in 1894, by the same authors. [JD 4/2/2013]