photographic print (black and white) | British Museum

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photographic print(black and white)

Object Type
Museum number: Oc,B130.220
Description: Photograph (black and white); view of a boy sitting on a mound of sand or mud, beside the sea; a thatched roof building on stilts in the background; Fakaofu Island(?), Tokelau. Gelatin silver print
Production date: 1889-1890
Production place: Photographed in: Fakaofo Island (?)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 15.60 centimetres (image); Width: 11.30 centimetres (image)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Related images: Oc,B42 through Oc,B55 all contain Joseph Jackson Lister donation images. The BM Pictorial Collection owns a glass negative of this image: Oc,G.N.1780 Location/ Production: This image is believed to have been photographed in same place as Oc,G.N.1778 (inscribed as: Fakaofu Island) as the accompanying envelope to Oc,G.N.1780 associates the two negatives.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: beach scene; child
Associated names
Associated places: Associated with: Fakaofo Island (?)
Associated ethnic name
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1928
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc,B130.220
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 71 (print batch number(?)); Miscellaneous number: Oc-G.N.-1780 (BM glass negative series number)