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Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: procession of mourning women holding fiber skirt valuables, anthropologist Annette Weiner (back to camera) observes

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Title: Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: procession of mourning women holding fiber skirt valuables, anthropologist Annette Weiner (back to camera) observes
Creator: Hutchins, Dona
Hutchins, Edwin
Date Created and/or Issued: 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, Dona
Hutchins, Edwin
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 52, Roll 8, Image 29
Type: image
Format: 35mm black and white negative
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb7851479v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trobriand Islanders
Anthropologists
Ceremonial exchange
Mourning customs
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Place: Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania

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