IDNO

N.134240.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Assembling on banks of river (note modern style bilums).

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

18 November 1995

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.134217.MST - N.134253.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 98.

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 “Baptism in the ‘River Jordan’ (Wara Gumants)” (MS word list (7) 1995 on images in numerical / chronological order “B”, re-arranged from disks.)

Context: bilum = Pidgin term for netbeg, in Melpa called wal. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/24/2017]

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