photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B85.3
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a large group of men and women performing a dance outdoors; two lines of women sit on the ground facing each other; two lines of men stand on either side of the sitting women; the women wear woven hats and long dark dresses; the men wear dark rounded hats with dark coloured shirts, and white below the knee trousers, with grass skirts over the trousers; people are gathered on either side of the dancers, some watching the dance, some not; a group of White people stand to one side watching; palm trees and a western-style building visible in the background; Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1900 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.20 centimetres (image)
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Height: 15 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 14 centimetres (image)
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Width: 20.60 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Abraded edge of the mount indicates that the images in this box were most likely, previously mounted in an album.
Image Oc,B85.4 is mounted on the reverse of the mount for this image.
This photograph is possibly by Frederick Sears, as indicated by the approximate date and location of the image, as well as the style of the photograph and the mount. This photograph is part of a mounted series that contains other photos that are by Sears.
Related image: This appears to be the same dance that is being preformed in image Oc,B85.5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Slight acid burn around edges of mount; mount abraded along one edge.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B85.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 23 (series number)