photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A59.37
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; Solomon Islander men and boys on the beach with a missionary next to row boats; Vanikoro, Solomon Islands.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.60 centimetres (image)
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Height: 28 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 14.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 21.70 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Production: photographed by Beattie on a tour of the Melanesian Mission ship Southern Cross from Norfolk Island to Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in 1906.
Bibliography: Beattie's 'Catalogue of a Series of Photographs Illustrating the Scenery and Peoples of the Islands in the South and Western Pacific' can be viewed at: www.anglicanhistory.org/oceania/beattie_catalogue1907.html (refer to the Beattie Photographic Series Number).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The overall condition of the album is such that it is warped, and has general wear. Additionally, there is the presence of acid in the mounts and interleaving papers, some of which have foxing, and the images have some fading, and some yellowing, but overall, the images are in fairly good condition.
- Acquisition date
- 1990 (From a collection of about 900 photographs and 140 artefacts donated by the Melanesian Mission in 1991 while disposing of its collections and archives, then at Henley on Thames, facilitated by Ben Burt of the British Museum.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A59.37