IDNO

N.132179.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: “Tipuka-Kawelka wua peng [death compensation payment]. Specifically the clans (Kawelka) Mandembo (= Ngglammbo & Kurupmbo) and Membo giving to (Tipuka) Kitepi and Oklembo. Kawelka practising.”
Mbukl moka pena (ceremonial ground).
Kawelka practising; Ngglammbo Ongka in the middle ….

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Western Highlands Province; Mbukl moka pena

Cultural Affliation

Kawelka Ngglammbo

Named Person

Kawelka Ngglammbo Ongka

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

5 August 1964

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.132170.MST - N.132205.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 14.

Related Archive: Related Archive: Marilyn Strathern lists for this series “Tipuka-Kawelka wua peng [death compensation payment]. Specifically the clans (Kawelka) Mandembo [= Ngglammbo & Kurupmbo] and Membo giving to (Tipuka) Kitepi and Oklembo. Kawelka practising.”

Context: moka pena = ceremonial ground. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/24/2017]

Context: peng = head (p86) (Melpa). [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/27/2017]

Context: wua peng = ‘men’s head’ payment = war death compensation (MS word document “Order B (3) 1967”, p.1). [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/26/2017]

Bibliographic Reference: See generally Andrew Strathern, The rope of moka (CUP 1971), and specifically for this prestation pp123-29. [Strathern's word document file]

A grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program supported the documentation and preservation of the Strathern photographic collection. [JD 6/11/2017]