photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Eu,A6.4
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); five men sitting in front of a house with cultivated fields visible in the background; they wear wool hats, cloth shirts, yileki (sleeveless waist coat), mindani (jacket), kapoto (cape), zounari (sash), vraka (trousers) and leather boots; Lasithi Plain, Greece.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.30 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Eu-A6-1 through 100 are all the same collection. Eu-A6-3 and 4 depict the same scene and men.
Production: This photograph was taken by one of the Seligmans in Crete. The negative for this image was originally housed in an envelope, which bears the inscription: "Men, (Lassithi)".
Bibliography: Fortes, Meyer; 'Brenda Zara Seligman, 1882-1965: A Memoir' in
Man, Vol. 65, (Nov. - Dec., 1965), pp. 178
Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 20thC
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Eu,A6.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 110 (photographic series number)
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Miscellaneous number: 86 (Seligman negative number)
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Miscellaneous number: F.N.3719 (British Museum negative number)