photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A49.21
- Title
- Series: Robert A Lever albums
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); from an album; five men wearing cloth wraps around their waists, some wearing necklaces; standing on boat each holding a fish in one hand; two of the men also hold a pole hung with fish between them; crayfish, rope and sail; Solomon Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1935
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres (image)
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Height: 19.30 centimetres (page)
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Width: 7.10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 24.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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It is believed that the name of the boat in this photograph is Hygeia and that there is some connection to Madoliana Island. This comes from the inscription on the same page as this image. See Oc,A49.20 Oc,A49.22
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There is a variety of identifiable fish, including groupers (family: Epinephelus), boxfish (family: Ostraciidae), squirrel fish (family: Holocentridae), and perhaps blue striped grunt fish (Haemulon sciurus).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection of five albums and a number of loose photographs, compiled by Robert A Lever and purchased by the British Museum in 2006 through auction.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A49.21
