Children's Drawings - Pere Village, Manus Island

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N40: Papua New Guinea, Folder 5: Admiralty Islands. Mead and Fortune trip to Manus, 1928-29. Field data. Margaret Mead. Children's drawings #1) (District of Columbia) (1928) , 5 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Pencil drawings created by native children of the Pere Village of Manus Island. Drawings were created by native boys, Kilipak, aged 13, and Loponiu, aged 14, by tracing a butcher knife. Drawings portray native people, fishing, nets, canoes, and boats.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Miscellaneous artwork
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 5
Page Range: 1-5
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Artisanal fishing, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Manus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guineans
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural