Government-sponsored festival in Tabibuga: adolescent girl with tattooed face, snail shell earrings, trade beads, white powder on face and hair

• February 4, 1962

• Cook, Edwin A.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 14, Envelope 19-24, Frame 22)

"A nubile native. Women who have both bras and dresses (and there are very few) wear the bras over the dresses, that's striking! ...note the crucifix tucked under the belt, green snail earrings, and l0ads of trade-beads. The white patches are powder, before powder was introduced they used ash." MSS187, Box 44, Folder 9.

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)

• Festivals
• Jewelry
• Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
• Teenagers

• image

Online finding aid

• Edwin Cook Papers

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-17