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Initiation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia as shown in a 19th century photograph
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Title:
Initiation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia as shown in a 19th century photograph
Caption:
Initiation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia as shown in a 19th century photograph. Four or five youths were chosen and taken into a hut to do various forms of labour, learn the tribal rules and had to always wear the curious hats shown in the picture. When their hair filled the hat the period of seclusion was over. From Customs of The World, published c.1913.
Credit:
Album / Universal Images Group / Universal History Archive
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Image size:
3295 x 5326 px | 50.2 MB
Print size:
27.9 x 45.1 cm | 11.0 x 17.8 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
19 CENTURY • 19TH CENTURY • 19TH • 19TH-CENTURY • ADOLESCENT • BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND • BOUGAINVILLE • BOY • CENTURY • CEREMONIAL • CEREMONY • CHILD • COMPLETE • CULTURE • CULTURES • CURIOUS • CUSTOM • CUSTOMS • ETHNIC • FEMALE • FILL • FULL • GUINEA • HAIR • HAIRS • HATS • HUMANS • INDÍGENA • INDIGENAS • INDIGÈNE • INDIGENOUS PEOPLE • INDIGENOUS • INITIATION • ISLA • ISLAND • ISLANDS • JUVENILE • MALES • MAN MEN • MAN • MELANESIA • MEN • NATIVE • NATIVES • NEW • NINETEENTH CENTURY • NINETEENTH • NOSY • PAPUA NEW GUINEA • PAPUA • PASSAGE • PELO • PEOPLE • PEOPLES • PRACTICE • REPUBLIC OF GUINEA • RITE • RITES • RITUAL • RITUALS • STRANGE • TEENAGER • TRADITION • TRADITIONAL • TRADITIONS • TRIBAL • TRIBE • WEARING • WOMEN • XIX CENTURY • YOUNG • YOUTH • YOUTHS
