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photographic print / album

• Object type

  • photographic print (black and white)
  • album

• Museum number

  Oc,A69.41

• 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)

• Production place

  • Photographed in: British Museum (?)
  • (Europe,British Isles,England,London,London Borough of Camden,Bloomsbury,British Museum)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • gelatin silver printing

• Dimensions

  • Height: 15.6 centimetres (image)
  • Width: 4.1 centimetres (image)
  • Height: 52.2 centimetres (album page)
  • Width: 37 centimetres (album page)

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      inscription

    • Inscription Position

      label stuck onto front of album page

    • Inscription Content

      1/2 pl. XIX/45

    • Inscription Comment

      handwritten in black ink

  • • Inscription Type

      inscription

    • Inscription Position

      label stuck onto front of album page

    • Inscription Content

      40a. Wooden idol, wrapped in barkcloth. Rarotonga (London Missionary Society Collection).

    • Inscription Comment

      printed

• Curator's comments

  Related object: this object is in the BM Collections Oc1978,Q.845. From the London Missionary Society.

• Location

  Not on display

• Condition

  Glue residue on the image.

• Subjects

  • religious object

• Associated names

  • Associated with: London Missionary Society
  • Associated with: The British Museum

• Associated places

  • Associated with: Rarotonga
  • (Oceania,Polynesia,Cook Islands,Rarotonga)

• Department

  Africa, Oceania & the Americas

• Registration number

  Oc,A69.41