IDNO

LS.120784.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Solomon Is.
Buka.
Two men in costume of ‘Kokorra" Secret Soc.
Long shirt of tapa, stained brown.
Conical hart of scrime over bamboo frame, covered by and painted w. grotrsque face.
At sides, 2 small boards mark ears." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands

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. 42. [JD 25/6/2012]