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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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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

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