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"Duk-Duk Ancestral Festival"

The duk duk lifts the skulls of the deceased from the graves for further display. Gazelle Peninsula; cf. Meyer-Parkinson pl. 16

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Cataloguing data

Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 23,5 cm
Width: 31,9 cm
Height: 15 cm
Width: 19,9 cm
Material/Technique
Form of presentation: on cardboard
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII B 314

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1894
    where
    Melanesia
    Bismarck Archipelago
    New Britain
    Gazelle Peninsula
  • Collecting
    who
    Richard Parkinson (1844 - 1909) - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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