IDNO

N.132292.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Crowd outside the temporary fence (Purwa in the right corner). Andrew Strathern to the left [they were waiting for cows to be killed, but negative order suggests otherwise -- I [Marilyn Strathern] think clustering round after they had been shot!].

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tipuka Kitepi

Named Person

Andrew Strathern; Tipuka Kitepi Purwa (Councillor)

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

12 January 1965

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.132286.MST - N.132312.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 22.

Related Archive: Marilyn Strathern lists for this series “Killing of the cows at Tipuka-Kawelka moka.” [Strathern's word document file]

Named Person: "Purwa (Councillor; son of Kuri and Kundmbo Nomane; brother to Koka, Kengenǝ, and Mapa, father to Robert Purwa), Tipuka Kitepi M." [Information provided by Marilyn Strathern on 'List of Personal Names', JD 12/6/2016]

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