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Expedition Photograph and Film Collection
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| Location Subject: |
Damuneru Village |
Filename: |
X115 |
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Damuneru; group--front man--'individual' in fur cap |
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A pigmy man at Damuneru. He is wearing a cassowary feather headdress made by attaching numerous of the black feathers of the cassowary to a woven circular headband. Around his neck he wears the typical men’s bag, a long narrow net bag profusely decorated with boar’s tusks and having attached in the center a flat perforated bone from the femur of a cassowary. |
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War Bkgd. #9, plate 24, Negritos of the Nassau Mountains; 2: Man wearing headdress of cassowary feathers, net bag ornamented with boar’s tusks, and wristlets of twisted rattan |
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