IDNO

N.132384.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Newly burnt garden cleared directly from pitpit & kunai shrub, Kelua.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Western Highlands Province; Mt. Hagen; Kelua

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

4 July 1965

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.132370.MST - N.132402.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 27.

Context: kunai = Pidgin term for a type of tall grass used in thatching. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/27/2017]

Context: pitpit = Pidgin term for wild sugar cane grasses (see description of object MAA 1968.230 A+B). [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]