Series of photographs of funeral on Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Island). Image showing a woman in a grass skirt lying next to her dead husband, who is wrapped in woven mats. They are under an open-sided shelter with a high, leaf-covered roof. Other women sit around with them.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: Series of photographs of funeral on Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Island). Image showing a woman in a grass skirt lying next to her dead husband, who is wrapped in woven mats. They are under an open-sided shelter with a high, leaf-covered roof. Other women sit around with them.
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Goodenough Island D'Entrecasteaux Islands Mud Bay
Person: Photographer Diamond Jenness; PRM source Diamond Jenness
Date / Period: Date of print: Circa 1935 Date of photograph: 1911-1912
Photographic process: Print bromide
Dimensions: Length x Width 97 x 64 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1998.174.12.2 Previous PRM number: C.1.17.12.b Previous other number: J.396
Associated publications: Research Publication - E. Edwards " Visualising History" Canberra Anthropology 1995 Research publication - Published (as part of a group image of the whole card) in Christopher Morton, 2012 'Photography and the Comparative Method: the Construction of an Anthropological Archive', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 18, No. 2 (June), 369–96). Caption: 'Funerary sequence from Goodenough Island (D’Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea) by Diamond Jenness, 1911-12.' [CM 24/05/2012]

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