photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,A5.171
- Title
- Series: Rev D.L. Francis
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); first members of the mothers' union; group of women, mothers, standing and kneeling outsidem with a White man sitting on a chair holding a traditional wooden, decorated staff, beside a White woman also sitting in a chair; a baby held by a mother; Lamalana, Vanuatu.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1935-1940
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.90 centimetres (image)
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Height: 9.80 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 10.60 centimetres (image)
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Width: 12.50 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The BM Pictorial Collection owns a photographic print Oc,A5.170 and a photographic copy print Oc,CA5.171, (MM034216-90).
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It is possible that the White man in this photograph is Rev D L Francis with his wife Mrs Edith Francis. The White woman has also been photographed in Oc,A5.172
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This image is mounted on brown card. It is believed that a selection of Rev D L Photographs were mounted into an photographic album, with brown card. See: Oc,CA6.119 (MM034216-65) in the BM Pictorial Collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Acquisition notes
- Collection of photographs acquired for the Museum of Mankind in 1992 by Ben Burt, as a gift from the executors of Rev. Francis' estate. The collection is comprised of 3 albums, and 1 box:
Oc-A4 (stored in a ring binder folder and also in a box, additionally labelled with the registration number Oc-A4, containing large photographs)
Oc-A5 (stored in a ring binder folder)
Oc-A6 (stored in a ring binder folder)
A box of large photographic prints, additionally labelled with the registration number Oc-A5 and Oc-A6
Oc-B104 (stored in a ring binder box).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A5.171
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 229