IDNO

N.132208.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Nditing (turning away), and his sons Punum and El (all three Tipuka Kitepi)
NOTE. Kawelka Membo and Mandembo give wua peng (pigs) to Tipuka Oklembo & Kitepi. On this final day, the Oklembo and Kitepi recipients dance in the same line as the donors to ‘help’ the display. Recipients would not wear Køi wal, but this was not a køi wal occasion anyway. See Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen 1971: 66-69. Only the donors run up and down the line of display … .

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tipuka Kitepi

Named Person

Tipuka Kitepi Nditing; Tipuka Kitepi El; Tipuka Kitepi Punum

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

14 August 1964

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.132206.MST - N.132224.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 15.

Related Archive: Marilyn Strathern lists for this series “Final display for wua peng moka, Kawelka to Tipuka.” [Strathern's word document file]

Named Person: "Nditing (father of Punum, Rumint, We and El; father of Roltinga), Tipuka Kitepi M." [Information provided by Marilyn Strathern on 'List of Personal Names', JD 11/11/2016]

Named Person: "El, (son of Nditing; brother of Punum; husband of Ndau) Tipuka Kitepi M." [Information provided by Marilyn Strathern on 'List of Personal Names', JD 24/11/2016]

Named Person: "Punum (son of Nditing; brother of El), Tipuka Kitepi M." [Information provided by Marilyn Strathern on 'List of Personal Names', JD 12/6/2016]

Context: køi wal = ‘a bag of birds’, i.e. various kinds of plumage stitched together (p.29). To from a plaque, part of headdress of moka-givers. (Melpa). [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/26/2017]

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 pp.123-29.

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