IDNO

N.132312.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Collecting taxes at Mbukl (Kawelka taxes collected). …. Komiti Ndoa etc.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

?Tipuka

Named Person

Tipuka Ndoa (Komiti)

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

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.

Context: Komiti = Pidgin title of an official in the new Local Government Council regime, he is the deputy and assistant to a Councillor or Kaunsel. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/26/2017]

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