NEW GUINEA. Kanganaman. 1960. A tamberan or "Mens House" in the Sepik area of New Guinea. Crocodile slit gong on the ground. Only warriors are allowed here, women are excluded on penalty of death.
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NEW GUINEA. Kanganaman. 1960. A tamberan or "Mens House" in the Sepik area of New Guinea. Crocodile slit gong on the ground. Only warriors are allowed here, women are excluded on penalty of death.

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Photograph

Burt Glinn

Maker
American, 1925–2008

NEW GUINEA. Kanganaman. 1960. A tamberan or "Mens House" in the Sepik area of New Guinea. Crocodile slit gong on the ground. Only warriors are allowed here, women are excluded on penalty of death.

1960
Dye imbibition print, printed ca. 1982 by Ingo Monde
Image: 55.4 x 37.1 cm (21 13/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Paper: 57.4 x 49 cm (22 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
Gift of Elena Prohaska Glinn, 2011
2011.0279.0002
Inscriptions recto (embossed): Burt Glinn [signature] / ESTATE OF BURT GLINN

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