Image: Returning from ceremony, Kerewa village, Gulf Province, PNG
A visitor returning home after a ceremony at Kerewa village, Goaribari Island, Gulf Province, PNG. January 1923. V4219
- Photographer:
- Frank Hurley
- Rights:
- © Courtesy of the Australian Museum
Additional information
Hurley landed at Kerewa on the morning after an all-night ceremony. He was 'grieved to observe that the dancers of the previous night were leaving the village in their canoes for their various circumjacent villages. They were intensely pictorial in the feathery plumes and paint.' Hurley was still able to photograph some of the visitors before they departed.
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