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

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Location Subject:
Agintawa District
Filename:
Z013
Captions [about captions]
C1:
Also see C047
C2:
Agintawa; M W S[tirling]; woman--comparative stature
C3:
Taking anthropometric measurements on a pigmy woman of Agintawa. She is wearing a necklace of yellow orchid stems and over her head is draped a typical woman’s carrying bag. The man whose head is seen in the background is wearing a head ornament made of cuscus bones.
C4:
N/A
C5:
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