photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B75.1
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); Ingava standing in front of a thatched canoe house, with Gemu and two other men standing in front of a canoe; Gemu and one man are wearing eye shades; Sisieta, Solomon Islands.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1886-1888
- Dimensions
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Height: 27.20 centimetres (image)
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Height: 29.70 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 37.30 centimetres (image)
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Width: 39.70 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This image is printed in D.C.Starzecka and B.A.L. Cranstone, 'The Solomon Islanders', London, British Museum Publications Ltd, 1974, fig 15 and Woodford, C M 'A Naturalist Among the Head-Hunters' 1890 plate 16, with the caption HEAD-HUNTING CANOE AND CANOE-HOUSE. VILLAGE OF SISIETA, RUBIANA LAGOON. BM photographic unit copy of this image exists, number Oc,CB75.1.
Gemu can also be seen in Oc,B75.6
The eye shade is made from plaited coconut leaf and is topped with a white wig.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B75.1