IDNO

LS.120769.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "New Britain, Bismarck Archip.
Mask-House, Labangesarum.
Exhib. of masks & carvings at feast in honour of dead relatives.
Upper row of bird-masks (‘Kepong’) represent dead persons, not used in dancing, but worn by relatives in a slow walk about the village.
Lower row of face masks (‘Tatanua’), used in dancing in honour of the dead.
NB. Below a canoe(?) is hanging, fastened in front with fibres & cords to the trunk of a tree, the upper part of which represents a dog’s head.
(See also 99.SOL.15 for bird masks)." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; New Ireland; Meklenburg; Labangesarum

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Meyer, A.B.; Parkinson, R. [Authors]

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1900

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in A.B. Meyer & R. Parkinson. Papuan Album II (Dresden, 1900), pl. 28. [JD 25/6/2012]