IDNO

T.133271.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Sequence of women dancers in performance in køi parka etc (donors). (to 1358).

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.133264.MST - T.133285.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 59a.

Publication: Similar image [T.133267.MST] published in 'Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen', 1971, after p.164 and captioned: “Colour plate 19 Wives of Kuli men, their hands raised in drum beat, perform werl to celebrate their own part in a prestation of pigs”. [KH 21/11/2016]

Related Archive: Draft caption for similar image [T.133267.MST] in document ‘Caption to colour pics used 'Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen', 1971 1-15’ with the following text: “The Kuli moka: women beating drums as they dance werl. These are donors' wives (cf photographs 93 and 94 [photographs 93 not yet identified, photograph 94 is N.133306.MST]), with massed headdresses of parrot, eagle and kumin, and Red bird feathers, although the [sic] full length of their Sickle Bill plumes are lost in the movement.” [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]

Context: køi parka = Paradisaea raggiana raggiana (Sclater), a subspecies of the Red bird of paradise (pp. 29, 184). [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]