photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,A56.23
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); Three White men standing on a porch of a thatched building, Alexander Wilson on the right and Dick Horton in the centre; they all wear military uniform of short sleeve shirts and shorts or trousers with socks and boots; two native soldiers stand on either side in front of the porch, they wear cloth wraps around their waists with belts, and hold rifles; Point Cruz, Solomon Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1943 (ca)
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.70 centimetres
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Width: 17.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Oc,A56.1 through 45 are copy prints made by the British Museum in 1985.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1985
- Acquisition notes
- From papers accompanying the copy prints: "Copied from photographs belonging to the late Alexander 'Spearline'Wilson, commisioner of Lands, B.S.I.P., in possession of his daughter Mrs Andrea Bannatyne...Mrs Bannatyne has agreed that this material may be consulted...but that further copies may be made for research and publication only with her written consent."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A56.23
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: MM 023567 (Museum of Mankind Negative Number)
