New Guinea Village

New Guinea Village

Photograph

Michael C. Rockefeller

Maker
American, 1938–1961

New Guinea Village

Michael Rockefeller's Legacy


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (16.2 × 24.4 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0330
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Rockefeller) 8/62 8) NEW GUINEA VILLAGE: Visiting the village of \ Ostjanep in order to observe a "bisj" pole ceremony. \ Michael Rockefeller came upon these Asmats, unclad \ except for an occasional shirt or shorts, sitting on \ their dug-out canoes while waiting for the festivities \ to begin. \ Credit MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER © 1962 MAGNUM Photos \ by courtesy of the Museum of Primitive Art
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