photographic print(black and white);
postcard
- Museum number
- Oc,B102.7
- Description
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Postcard printed with a photograph (black and white); photograph of woman standing in front of a photo backdrop facing the camera; she has elaborate body tattoos of geometric shapes; she is wearing earrings, armbands, and leg bands; Papua New Guinea.
- Production date
- 1904-1908
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Width: 8.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Image Oc,B102.9 is the same as this image, and the same woman is pictured from the side in Oc,B102.8 and 10.
Bibliography:
“The Melanesians of British New Guinea”,by C G Seligman; Francis Rickman Barton; E L Giblin; Cambridge, University Press, 1910.
For commentary on photographs taken by Barton in Papua New Guinea, see: Focal Length as an Analogue of Cultural Distance/by Martha Macintyre and Maureen MacKenzie (pp 161-163), in: Anthropology and photography 1860-1920 / edited by Elizabeth Edwards. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1992;
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Index card with acquisition note states:
"26 NEW GUINEA POSTCARDS
purchasd from mr A. H. Barton
[….]
P.T.O
No information except that they were acquired by the lender's uncle (his father's brother) in New Guinea, between 1932 - 36.
D.C. Starzecka 5/3/77"
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B102.7