New mother wearing shell belt and necklace, fiber skirt, flower garland, and skirt valuable on head, and red betel nut paste on face, word tattooed on left arm, marks on body may be skin fungus
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Hutchins, Edwin Hutchins, Dona
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UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Private collection of E. Hutchins, Sleeve 29, Slide 9
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Format
35mm color slide
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ark:/20775/bb41654430
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Subject
Clothing and dress Women Tattooing Rites and ceremonies Body marking Birth customs Trobriand Islanders Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) Pacific Islands Oceania Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Melanesia
Place
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) Pacific Islands Oceania Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Melanesia
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