photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B119.1
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a thatched roof wooden marea (men's club house), with another thatched-roof building next to the marea and a carved wooden post depicting an alligator in front of the two buildings; Roroaiara, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1903-1904
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.20 centimetres
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Width: 10.60 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This photograph is from a collection of images taken during the Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
The collection has no acquisition details, but was found with a number of papers, letters and language term lists seemingly connected to C. G. Seligman, which have been created into an EthDoc. Several hair specimens were also found amongst the letters.
A number of the photographs in the collection were found in brown ‘G.B.K’ envelopes. The envelopes have a variety of handwritten numbers (in red ink, black ink, pencil, and/or blue pencil) which are believed to refer to a BM inventory number (given at an unknown date presumably after the collection came to the BM), as well as some descriptive notes which locate where the images were photographed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B119.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1000 (BM inventory number)
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Miscellaneous number: 26 (illustration number)
