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photographic print / album
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Object type
Museum number
Oc,A69.41
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Description
Photograph (black and white), from an album; a wooden staff god from Rarotonga, wrapped in a roll of decorated barkcloth..
Gelatin silver print -
Date
- 20thC(mid)
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Production place
- Photographed in: British Museum (?)
- (Europe,British Isles,England,London,London Borough of Camden,Bloomsbury,British Museum)
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Materials
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Technique
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Dimensions
- Height: 15.6 centimetres (image)
- Width: 4.1 centimetres (image)
- Height: 52.2 centimetres (album page)
- Width: 37 centimetres (album page)
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Inscriptions
Inscription Type
inscriptionInscription Position
label stuck onto front of album pageInscription Content
1/2 pl. XIX/45Inscription Comment
handwritten in black ink
Inscription Type
inscriptionInscription Position
label stuck onto front of album pageInscription Content
40a. Wooden idol, wrapped in barkcloth. Rarotonga (London Missionary Society Collection).Inscription Comment
printed
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Curator's comments
Related object: this object is in the BM Collections Oc1978,Q.845. From the London Missionary Society.
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Location
Not on display
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Condition
Glue residue on the image.
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Subjects
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Associated names
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Associated places
- Associated with: Rarotonga
- (Oceania,Polynesia,Cook Islands,Rarotonga)
- Associated with: Rarotonga
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Department
Africa, Oceania & the Americas
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Registration number
Oc,A69.41
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