photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B110.120
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a western-style mission house and a thatched roof chapel, with a large group of people standing in between the house and the chapel, some wearing western-style clothing; two White women, two girls and five women are standing on the veranda of the house; Lamalana, Vanuatu.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.20 centimetres
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Width: 20.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This image can also be seen in Oc,B110.121 and 122.
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This photograph was made by John Watt Beattie in 1906 on a tour of the Melanesian Mission ship Southern Cross through Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.
Beattie published a catalogue of Pacific Islands photographs and wrote a journal which provides additional information about many of them. These and other relevant papers are published by Project Canterbury at www.anglicanhistory.org/oceania/beattie.
When acquired by the British Museum, these photographs and the copy negatives made from them were catalogued in PicDoc93.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- the photochemical inscription has been tippexed over
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Acquisition notes
- 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,B110.120
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 272 (Beattie catalogue number)
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Miscellaneous number: 483
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Miscellaneous number: 503