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Title
Mortuary ceremony: mourning women, faces and bodies painted black, beside a basket filed with banana leaf bundles
Creator
Hutchins, Dona
Hutchins, Edwin
Date Created and/or Issued
1975-1976
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Edwin Hutchins and Dona Hutchins Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
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Rights Holder and Contact
Hutchins, Edwin
Hutchins, Dona
Description
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Private collection of E. Hutchins, Envelope 39, Roll 6, Image 24
Type
image
Format
35mm black and white negative
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb11961328
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Mourning customs
Women
Trobriand Islanders
Ceremonial exchange
Baskets
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Melanesia
Oceania
Pacific Islands
Place
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Melanesia
Oceania
Pacific Islands

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