Set of numbered prints captioned Manners and Customs and Types of Costume.

Scope and Content

Individual and group portraits showing dress, hairstyles etc. Groups include: dancing men; Thursday Island dancers. People include: man with drum; patriarch of Urama village; garden sorcerer; Torres Strait man wearing Darii national headdress. Activities include: carrying babies in bags. Places or buildings include: interior of dubu captioned "men's club" Also includes: ceremonial shields; shrines with skulls; headhunters trophies; crocodile skulls; fetish statues; kovave mask. Pictures taken by/received from: Ben T Butcher; stills from Frank Hurley's film "Pearls and Savages".

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