IDNO

N.132363.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Daughter of Kitepi Kolkakl Əndipi and friends, at Mbukl. (note pandanus rain cape in bilum). The pandanus used for rain capes is called karuga in pidgin.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

February 1965

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.132362.MST - N.132369.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 26.

Context: bilum = Pidgin term for netbeg, in Melpa called wal. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/24/2017]

Context: karuga = Pidgin term for a pandanus type, used for rain capes. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/24/2017]

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