photographic print (black and white)

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photographic print(black and white)

Object Type
Museum number: Oc,B121.225
Description: Photograph (black and white); view of a thatched roof club house, with a man standing at the entrance next to a supporting post; Diumana, Papua New Guinea. Gelatin silver print
Producer name
Production date: 1903-1904
Production place: Photographed in: Diumana
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 7.30 centimetres; Width: 5.40 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Related images: Oc,A1.1, Oc,A1.2, Oc,A1.92 and Oc,B121.218 through 225. Oc,B121.218 through 225 were all in an envelope together. Related 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
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Prof Charles Gabriel Seligman; Associated with: Poa Oa
Associated places: Associated with: Diumana
Associated ethnic name
Associated events: Associated Event: Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc,B121.225