M0012537: Boy wearing 'tight-lacing', Papua New Guinea.

Previous title, replaced March 2022: 'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea.

Photograph of a boy from the Mekeo region wearing 'tight-lacing' to denote he has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry, Papua New Guinea. This reproduction was taken from Haddon, Alfred C: Head-Hunters - Black, White and Brown, London: Methuen, 1901.

May 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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