photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A50.49
- Title
- Series: Robert A Lever albums
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; a young man squats in a field of short vegetation next to a small table with two samples of dung for the purpose of collecting the pupae of the horn fly, he wears shorts, holds a pesticide hand pump; a split-wood fence, palm trees and western-style buildings behind him; Lungga, Solomon Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1936
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 19.30 centimetres (page)
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Width: 10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 24.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: The man in this image can also be seen in images 5, 9, 45, 46 and 48. Additionally another image of him is found in : Lever, R. J. A. W. ; ‘A Contribution to the Ecology of a Grassland Community on Guadalcanal Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate’; The Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 6, No. 2. (Nov., 1937), pp. 294, Phot. 2.
- 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,A50.49
