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

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Location Subject:
Agintawa District
Filename:
Z044
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Two men of Agintawa showing gourd loin covering, armbands and other ornaments. The man on the right is wearing a nose ornament of spilt boar’s tusks and a necklace of small land snail shells. Tucked under an armband on his left arm, he is wearing a number of bright colored leaves as ornament. The man on the left wears a cuscus tail in his right ear and a head ornament of cuscus bones.
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