IDNO

T.133199.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Single woman, tall køi mek, black & red feathers. Woman in black & red feathers.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Western Highlands Province; Mt. Hagen; Kuli tribal area

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

16 September 1967

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.133191.MST - T.133227.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 58a.

Publication: Similar image [T.133198.MST] published in 'Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen', 1971, after p.164 and captioned: “Colour plate 23 The profuse array of a woman’s plumage (Kuli, donor’s wife)”. [KH 22/11/2016]

Publication: Image is published in Strathern, M., 2013. 'Learning to see in Melanesia: Four lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1993–2008' (Hau Masterclass Vol 2), plate 43, with the following caption:
"The body assembled from the attention and ambitions of others. A woman on her way to join a dancing line (a full length portrait of the dancer in figure 35). Kuli, Mt. Hagen, Western Highlands. 1967. Photograph: Marilyn Strathern." [JD 4/6/2017]

Related Archive: Draft caption for similar image [T.133198.MST] in document ‘Caption to colour pics used 'Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen', 1971 1-15’ with the following text: “A donor's wife at the Kuli moka, her face as red as the puklør parrot feathers that crown her head. The white and blue streaks are called nde ndokl waep (see text [text reference not yet identified]).” [Paper Archives will be deposited at Girton College, Cambridge, date to be confirmed. KH 22/11/2016]

Related Archive: Marilyn Strathern lists “The Kuli moka.” [Strathern's word document file]

Bibliographic Reference: Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen (1971: 75-82). [JD 4/6/2017]

Context: køi mek = Astrapia stephaniae (Finsch & Mayer) or Princess Stephanie’s bird of paradise (p.29). [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]