photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B113.109
- Description
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Photograph (gelatin silver print) of a forest scene with a man in front of a shrine building in Matema island, Reef Islands, Temotu, Solomon Islands.
- Production date
- 1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.20 centimetres (image)
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Height: 18.90 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 20.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 24.30 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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The traditional name for a ghost house is a Maduka and the posts are called Duka, which represent the spirits; written about by Rev W. C. O'Ferrall, in "Melanesia: Santa Cruz and the Reef Islands" http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/oferrall_santacruz1908/
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The BM Pictorial Collection owns a photographic print of this image; See Oc,B113.8.
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This photograph was made by John Watt Beattie in 1906 on a tour of the Melanesian Mission ship Southern Cross through Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.
Beattie published a catalogue of Pacific Islands photographs and wrote a journal which provides additional information about many of them. These and other relevant papers are published by Project Canterbury at www.anglicanhistory.org/oceania/beattie.
When acquired by the British Museum, these photographs and the copy negatives made from them were catalogued in PicDoc93.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection of about 900 photographs and 140 artefacts donated by the Melanesian Mission in 1991 while disposing of its collections and archives, then at Henley on Thames, facilitated by Ben Burt of the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B113.109
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 433 (Beattie catalogue number)