photographic print (black & white) | British Museum

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photographic print(black & white)

Object Type
Museum number: Af,A33.46
Description: Scene of a cock-fight. Two adult males each holding a cock, crouching in the centre of a circle of adult males. Wearing shirts, shorts, head-gear, sarongs. Medium: Gelatin silver print.
Producer name
Production date: 1937 (16th February)
Production place: Made in: Denpasar (near)
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 11.80 centimetres (AF/A33/46); Width: 18.36 centimetres (AF/A33/46)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Cataloguer's comment: Album contains 74 photographs. Main themes of album: Views of: temples, indigenous people performing ritual dances, cockfighting, the interior of a museum, rice terraces. Albums Af,A8 to Af,A32 belong to the same series. Geography: Ethnic group identified by N F Barley, 17/04/1996. Circumstances: [SIN-] PIC DOC 08.
Location: Not on display
Condition: Album bound in full leather. Good condition.
Subjects: costume/clothing; animal-fighting
Associated ethnic name
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Af,A33.46
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: AF/CA33/46