photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A50.85
- Title
- Series: Robert A Lever albums
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; man dressed in cloth wraps around waist with cloth wrapped around his neck; he stands inside a fenced pen with two cassowaries; Keravat, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 30 Jan, 1936
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 19.30 centimetres (page)
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Width: 8 centimetres (image)
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Width: 24.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Robert Lever's diary references a visit on the 30th of January to Rabaul : "Saw insectary, library, collection, museums Botanic Gardens with aviary. Was (illegible) Lunga Lunga."
- 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,A50.85