photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,A5.9
- Title
- Series: Rev D.L. Francis
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a wooden idol containing human bones, in a sacred garden, in the hills above Melanesian Missionary Hospital, Fauabu; north central Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1932-1933 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Width: 7.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The BM Pictorial collection own a large print of this image Oc,A5.10 (stored in the box) and a photographic copy print Oc,CA5.10 (MM034216-139) in the ring binder folder.
Exact image: Oc,G.T.2122 (lantern slide) from the Melanesian Mission collection.
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The inscription on the large print of this image, associates the place in Central North Malaita, above Fauabu. In other words, the view has been taken of above the Melanesian Mission Hospital, Fauabu, where Rev D L Francis was posted.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- This image has been stuck to paper, using double-sided(?) adhesive tape.
- 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,A5.9
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 126