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Title
Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman with shaved head, wearing long fiber skirt and beaded necklaces
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 21, Roll 3, Image 19
Type
image
Format
35mm black and white negative
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb7476050w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Ceremonial exchange
Clothing and dress
Women
Taro
Trobriand Islanders
Mourning customs
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Place
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)

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