IDNO

T.134144.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: View from Marilyn Strathern house at Kuk. This was a house lent to Marilyn Strathern by Mberem (Ru’s wife); it is on the site of the subsequent World Heritage Information Centre (constructed in 2015).

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Kawelka Kundmb

Named Person

Marilyn Strathern; Kawelka Kundmb Mberem (Sarah)

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

mid October 1995

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Colour

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.134144.MST - T.134146.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 95.

Named Person: "Mberem (wife of Kawelka Kurupmbo Ru; mother of Helen and Henry) (Sarah), Kawelka Kundmbo W." [Information provided by Marilyn Strathern on 'List of Personal Names', JD 23/11/2016]

Related Archive: MS notes on her images from 1995 “This was a two month research project on compensation and life-related payments (October – December 1995). MS came by herself (the children were now at university or beyond).”

Related Archive: MS lists “View from MS house at Kuk” (cf. MS word list (7) 1995 on images in numerical / chronological order “B”, re-arranged from disks.)

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