photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B102.54
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a carved and painted wooden human headed post, inside a thatched wooden clubhouse; the post is bound with fibres to a supporting beam; Diumana, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.60 centimetres
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Width: 11.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Oc,A1.2 is the same image; a similar post can be seen in Oc,A1.1 and 92.
This image is also printed in Seligman 1910 'The Melanesians of British New Guinea', p.247, plate XXXVIII, with the caption 'Human-headed post in old clubhouse at Diumana, carved by Poa Oa.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B102.54
