photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B121.211
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a view of thatch-roofed men's club house (marea); with a carved post extending out from the front of the roof, the major motif of which seems to be a crab claw; palm trees in the background; Mou, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1903-1904
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.60 centimetres (image)
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Width: 10.10 centimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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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.
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Related images: Oc,B121.215, Oc,B121.211 and Oc,A1.84. Another image of this marea is printed in Seligman 1910 'The Melanesians of British New Guinea', p.225, plate XXV, with the caption 'A marea at Moü.'
- 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,B121.211
