photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A8.2
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); from an album; a side profile view of a Wakaja man, named Coontajandra, showing body scarfication on his back; Australia.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1893
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.20 centimetres (image)
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Height: 25.30 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 15.10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 19.50 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album of 51 photographs.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The album has been rebound by the British Museum (mid-late 20thC, exact date unknown): some of the binding materials, notations and formatting of album may not be original, and original materials, notations and formatting may have been lost in the rebinding process.
Clear adhesive has been attached to the outer edges of all album pages.
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed on the third page of this album in pencil: 'Presented to
Brab. H Purcell Esg. M.R.S.S.
by
J.W. Lindt Esq. FRGS
Melbourne
27 March 1893'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A8.2