A Febi girl in traditional adornment
| dc.contributor.author | Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949- | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Papua New Guinea | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-29T05:10:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-29T05:10:34Z | |
| dc.date.created | Dec 1979 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-03-29T05:10:34Z | |
| dc.description | Photographer's note: The isolation of the Febi people is reflected in the traditional self-decoration of this girl in her early teens. The only evidence of links to the ‘outside world’ is a few strings of tiny Italian-made ‘trade beads’ around her neck and forehead. Her personal adornment consists of grey ‘Jobs-tear’ seed (Coix lacryma-jobi) crossed chest bands, a cowrie shell necklace and a beaten-bark cape suspended from her head and wrapped around her waist. After around age 7, both girls and boys have their nasal septum pierced to accommodate a bamboo plug. This photograph was shot in a Bulong longhouse, approximately 1.5 kilometres SE of the resurgence of the north branch of the Liddle (Dogomo) River (marked as ‘rapids’ on 1: 100 000 Karoma map sheet 7386). Universal grid reference: 54M XU454573. (144 19 E. 5 49 S.) | |
| dc.format.medium | photograph | |
| dc.identifier | ANUA 717-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/228545 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
| dc.rights | This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use. | |
| dc.subject.other | Papua New Guinea | |
| dc.title | A Febi girl in traditional adornment | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dspace.entity.type | ANUArchivesItem | |
| local.contributor.copyrightholder | Eastburn, David R., 1949 - |
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