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Expedition Photograph and Film Collection
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Brown River |
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Y094 |
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Brown River; man crouched in undergrowth |
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Two Papuan men from the middle reaches of the Brown River. These Papuans were very shy and difficult to photograph. The men shown in the picture have just come from the underbrush to pick up some gifts that we had left lying at the edge of the clearing. They snatched the presents and immediately ran back into cover. These people, in common with most of the Papuans of the Upper Rouffaer as a rule, are completely nude. Their bows and arrows are similar in construction to those of the entire western Lake Plain area. The bows are made of palmwood with strings of rattan and are frequently decorated with feathers, usually the crowns of crowned pigeons. |
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