photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,A23.49
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a close up of Dorothy Varu sitting on the ground making a te menge (sleeping mat) by plaiting strips of te kie (pandanus dried leaves); a pipe beside her; Tikopia, Solomon Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1975
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.65 centimetres
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Width: 17.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The BM Pictorial Collection owns a series of the same woman plaiting a sleeping mat; see Oc,A23.47 through to Oc,A23.50.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- A collection of photographic prints made from slides and negatives loaned by Mick Pendergrast in around 1978 - Nov 1980, consisting of images mainly taken in Tikopia, the Solomon Islands. The British Museum Pictorial Collection have been assigned copyright to these images.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A23.49
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1975/2/20