Image: Parts of mourning costume E17509 - E17512

Parts of mourning costume. These accessories, two feet and part of a hand, are associated with mourning ceremony, not practiced (openly) on Mer (Murray Island) after adoption of Christianity in the 1870s. Collected by John Bruce about 1900. 

Photographer:

Paul Ovenden

Rights:

© Australian Museum

Last Updated: 24 January 2011