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John LeRoy Photographs

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

Photographs created by American anthropologist John D. LeRoy, in the context of field research with the Kewa people of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Activities associated with ritual exchanges are especially well-represented. Other topics include daily villages activities, such as gardening. A few photographs, taken by an unknown photographer, depict ritual structures present in the 1960s. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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121 items found in this collection

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Adolescent girls doing a circle dance
Adolescent girls in a circle dance
Adolescent girls with face and body paint, pearlshell pendants and other finery, …
An aging village leader, skin blackened with soot and oil and decorated …
The anthropologist, John Leroy and another man, dressed for a ceremony
The anthropologist, John Leroy, on a bridge built of vines, crosses the …
The anthropologist, John LeRoy, with his neighbors
The anthropologist John Leroy's house at Yakopaita: mat walls, grass thatch, plastic …
Australian Protestant missionary addresses the faithful
Bananas, taros, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, greens
Before distributing pork and vegetables, a headman offers a blessing learned from …
Bones and strings of shells displayed for ancestors during a ritual
Bovine husbandry, a practice newly adopted by a headman
Boy (l) plays a bamboo mouth harp
British patrol officer with his dog out on patrol, entering a hamlet
Carrying a bamboo tube filled with palm oil, an item in ceremonial …
Child in a newly planted patch of sweet potatoes
Children show mixed responses to the visitor with his camera
Clayey subsoil, with bark-walled, palm leaf-thatched houses behind
Crowd at Erave patrol post watch while Australian flag is lowered, to …
Dancer during a ceremonial gathering, in regalia, including headdress with feathers, nassa …
Decorated man, dressed for a ceremonial parade and display, wears headdress with …
Decorated man holding a shell for its recipient, pigs tethered in background, …
Decorated man holds up pearlshells and other valuables for ceremonial exchange
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