Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning woman with shaved head and wearing necklace carries banana leaf bundles for exchange, talks with anthropologist Annette Weiner
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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, Envelope 43, Roll 7, Image 12
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Trobriand Islanders Women Ceremonial exchange Mourning customs Anthropologists Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) Melanesia Pacific Islands Oceania Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Weiner, Annette B., 1933-
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Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) Melanesia Pacific Islands Oceania Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
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