Dance: Motabasi (left) with feathers in hair, dancers wear fiber skirts and carry flattened pandanus leaves for circle dance

Decorated children with short skirts (doba) and flattened dried pandanus leaves (bisila) prepare for the Rogaewa circle dance (wosimwaya). Adult standing among the children is Motabasi.

• 1975

• Hutchins, Dona
• Hutchins, Edwin

Private collection of E. Hutchins, Sleeve 17, Slide 5

35mm color slide

Development stamp on slide: Nov75H12.

• Melanesia
• Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)

• Body marking
• Children
• Clothing and dress
• Dance
• Men
• Trobriand Islanders
• Women

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Hutchins, Dona
• Hutchins, Edwin

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2021-11-17