New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey.

  • Dauncey, H. M.
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[between 1900 and 1999]
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645190i
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New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"The decoration is begun at the age of five and added to each year. The V-shaped marks on the chest are done last and indicate that the girl is marriageable."--accompanying label

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 11.4 x 15.7 cm

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Waima girls showing tattoo. Copyright by the Rev. H.M. Dauncey

References note

W.H.R. Rivers, History of Melanesian society

Reference

Wellcome Collection 645190i

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"Taken by H.M. Dauncey, L[ondon] M[issionary] S[ociety] missionary in Papua at Waima village"--accompanying note

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