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Title
Dance: Motabasi (left) with feathers in hair, dancers wear fiber skirts and carry flattened pandanus leaves for circle dance
Creator
Hutchins, Dona
Hutchins, Edwin
Date Created and/or Issued
1975
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.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Hutchins, Edwin
Hutchins, Dona
Description
Decorated children with short skirts (doba) and flattened dried pandanus leaves (bisila) prepare for the Rogaewa circle dance (wosimwaya). Adult standing among the children is Motabasi.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Private collection of E. Hutchins, Sleeve 17, Slide 5
Development stamp on slide: Nov75H12.
Type
image
Format
35mm color slide
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb25613335
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trobriand Islanders
Children
Women
Body marking
Dance
Clothing and dress
Men
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Pacific Islands
Place
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Pacific Islands

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