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LL/89914
John William Lindt
1885
75. Mourners and Dead House at Kalo, Kemp Welch R. [Papua New Guinea]
[British New Guinea Expedition 1885 led by led by Sir Peter Scratchley]

Albumen print
British Museum
Museum number: Oc,B19.35
 
Two seated women in front of a thatched structure used to house the dead, wearing plant fibre skirts, neck ornaments, ear ornaments, armlets; several thatched roof building on stilts are behing the two women, and other people are in background, some wearing plant fibre skirts; Kalo, Papua New Guinea.
 
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