"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

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Location Subject:
Agintawa District
Filename:
Z040
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Agintawa-women (cooking)
C3:
Women preparing a meal at Agintawa. A woman in the background is chopping wood with a stone ax preparing to build a fire for heating rocks. The woman in the foreground wears a gourd skirt which is considered somewhat more of a dress-up garment than the usual working skirt of Pandanus leaves or bark strips. Around her neck she wears an elaborate necklace made of small black seeds.
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