photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A1.2
- Title
- Series: Seligman
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); from an album; view of a carved and painted wood anthropomorphic post, inside a thatched wooden clubhouse; the post is bound with fibres to a supporting beam; Diumana, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.30 centimetres
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Width: 9.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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From an album of 154 photos, all images are photographs of prints.
Related images: Oc,A1.1, Oc,A1.2, Oc,A1.92 and Oc,B121.218 through 225.
This image is also printed in Seligman 1910 'The Melanesians of British New Guinea', p.247, plate XXXVIII, with the caption 'Human-headed post in old clubhouse at Diumana, carved by Poa Oa.'
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Related image: this image can also be found in Oc,G.N.1917
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A1.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 131
