Mortuary ritual: women, their faces and bodies smeared with clay as a sign of mourning, have lowered wrapped corpse into grave

• 1962

• Cook, Edwin A.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 17, Envelope 17-27, Frame 12)

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

• Cemeteries
• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Mourning customs
• Narak (Papua New Guinean people)

• image

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• Edwin Cook Papers

• UC Regents

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2021-11-17