photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A1.84
- Title
- Series: Seligman
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; a view of thatch-roofed men's club house (marea); with a carved post extending out from the front of the roof, the major motif of which seems to be a crab claw; palm trees in the background; Mou, Papua New Guinea
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.70 centimetres
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Width: 10.40 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. Another image of this settlement is printed in Seligman 1910 'The Melanesians of British New Guinea', p.225, plate XXV, with the caption 'A marea at Moü.'
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Related images: Oc,B121.215 seems to depict a detailed view of the carved roof post (crab claw) that is seen in Oc,B121.211 and Oc,A1.84.
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Related image: this image can also be found in Oc,G.N.1887
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A1.84
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 131
