[A Bena Bena highlander from the Goroka area of New Guinea] [picture] / N.V. Salt
- Bib ID:
- 943307
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Salt, N. V
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Box PS 342 #PIC/5241 copy
- Description:
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- [195-]
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 24.2 x 18.5 cm.
- Summary:
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Inscription: 'Kukukuku. A Bena Bena Highlander from the Goroka area of New Guinea. He is wearing a headband of green scarab beetles, a headdress of cassowary feathers bordrerd by a circlet of giri giri shell, and a necklace of kumul(?) shell on his chest. Photo by N.V. Salt.' -- written in pencil on reverse. 2. N.V. Salt, Education Dept., Port Moresby -- written and cancelled out on reverse.
- Biography/History:
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The area of Bena Bena is located east of Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The Bena Bena people are divided into approximately 65 separate tribes. First white contacat was made in 1930 by the Leahy expedition.
- Notes:
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- Condition: good.
- Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.
- PIC Box PS 342 #PIC/5241 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136572428
- Subject:
- Bena-bena (Papua New Guinean people) -- Portraits
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