Pig festival, singsing: Wando, wearing eagle feather headdress, holds a drum

• August 1962

• Cook, Edwin A.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 1, Envelope 23-28, Frame 26)

"This is Wando, our 40=year old son, and perhaps the most influential man in these parts. His right eye is a pustulating swollen mass caused by the lodgment of an arrow point some 6 or so years ago. I know of at least three people he has killed in the last 6 years. The fur pieces around his neck are possums, of which there are many varieties here, feather headress, nose plumes, all part of the ceremonial regalia. The chin shell is a mark of status. Actually a very unusual picture because most often Wanda doesn't dress up for ceremonials, also the mark of an influential man, he can get away with it." MSS187, Box 44, Folder 9.

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

• Clothing and dress
• Headdresses
• Jewelry
• Musical instruments
• Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
• Portraits
• Shell money

• image

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• Edwin Cook Papers

• UC Regents

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