IDNO

LS.120661.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "M.N.G.
Group of men, of Sisanoo, N. W. Coast.
Note the very broad belt some are wearing.
Bone daggers in arm-bands.
Large tube in nose of 2nd front man to left & others.
Earrings.
Shell ring in arm-bands." [manuscript in ink]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Meyer & Parkinson [Author]

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1900

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]

Related Archive: In folder FG1/1/9, a listing of Meyer & Parkinson's lanternslides provides the following caption: "Western parts of Germany Guinea. Meyer & Parkingson, Papua Album II 1900.
Natives of Sisanoo.
IX. The men grow their hair in the style in use on this coast, not unlike an ‘Allonge’ - wig of olden times. In the centre of the group some natives wear the broad bark-belt, in custom here, as a protection against arrows and spears, some have in their arm-ornament the known bone-daggers." [JD 09/11/2021]