IDNO

T.133203.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Detail of women dancers.

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.133204.MST] published in 'Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen', 1971, after p.164 and captioned: “Colour plate 22 The aesthetics of bright and dark contrasts: blue trade-store beads form a background for white cowries; the Superb crest is bordered by a bright roundel below, on top by an array of red parrot feathers and the sulphur crest feathers of the white cockatoo; above these are dark kumin, themselves set against the ruddy plumes of the Red bird of paradise”. [KH 21/11/2016]

Related Archive: Draft caption for similar image [T.133204.MST] in document ‘Caption to colour pics used 'Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen', 1971 1-15’ with the following text: “Feathers are arranged for aesthetic effect. Although the overall quality aimed at here is 'brightness', as the woman's face-paint underlines, feathers are arranged in a way that contrasts their colours. From the back of the crest of the Superb bird is a circlet of scarlet puklør parrot feathers and the yellow crest feathers of the white cockatoo. These show up against the mass of dark kumin, that again set off the ruddy plumes of the Red bird of paradise” [Paper Archives will be deposited at Girton College, Cambridge, date to be confirmed. KH 21/11/2016]

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]

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