photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A9.21
- Title
- Series: James Edge-Partington
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); from an album; a piece of north east coast New Guinean woman's barkcloth.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1897
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.10 centimetres (image)
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Height: 17.70 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 7.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 13.80 centimetres (mount)
- Curator's comments
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Inscription on second page of this album reads:
"PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEW GUINEA (N.E. COAST)
TAPAS [MACGREGOR COLLECTION]
IN THE BRISBANE MUSEUM
TAKEN BY J.E.P. 1897
FIG.s ALBUM 3(?) S. Pl 92&93.
cf. N.C. Reports 1893/4 p.36"
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This image was photographed by James Edge-Partington in the Brisbane Museum (now known as Queensland Museum), Australia. The tapa cloth is associated with Musa River, Papua New Guinea, and was collected by Sir William MacGregor.
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Correspondence with Michael Quinnell from Queensland Museum, has help identify each bark cloth in the Edge-Partington album. PicDoc 204 includes a table document which gives the Queensland Museum Registration number and states whether the item is still held in Queensland Museum, or has been transferred to the National Museum of Papua New Guinea.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- This image has been stuck half above adjacent image.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A9.21