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Man decorated for pig festival, wears nassa shells and a baler shell ornament, headband with bandanna, trade beads, cockatoo feathers, and marsupial fur

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Title: Man decorated for pig festival, wears nassa shells and a baler shell ornament, headband with bandanna, trade beads, cockatoo feathers, and marsupial fur
Creator: LeRoy, John D., 1944-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John LeRoy Photographs
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.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact: LeRoy, John D., 1944-
Description: South Kewa (Erave) fieldwork, June-December 1971.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type: image
Format: 35 mm color slide
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb9390073z
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Jewelry
Kewa (Papua New Guinean people)
Rites and ceremonies
Pig ceremony
Shell money
Clothing and dress
Portraits
Pacific Islands
Southern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia
Place: Pacific Islands
Southern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia

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