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Title
Land litigation meeting: Mogiovyeka, Tovalugwa and others, including anthropologist Edwin Hutchins who makes recording
Creator
Hutchins, Dona
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, Dona
Hutchins, Edwin
Description
Published in: Culture and Inference: A Trobriand Case Study by Edwin Hutchins, on p. 63 with caption, "A scene from Trobriand land litigation; the author makes a stereophonic tape recording of the proceedings while a litigant states his claim and villagers listen." The man standing in the light colored long-sleeved shirt is Mogiovyeka, behind Mogiovyeka seated in a white singlet is Tovalugwa, a respected village leader.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Private collection of E. Hutchins, Envelope 55, Roll 9, Image 12
Meeting is taking place under the village chief's house in Tukwaukwa.
Type
image
Format
35mm black and white negative
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb8124519d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trobriand Islanders
Anthropologists
Dwellings
Meetings
Men
Courts
Land tenure
Pacific Islands
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia
Hutchins, Edwin
Place
Pacific Islands
Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia

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