photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B15.13
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); village setting; view of two Tongan adults working on a long tapa barkcloth; child standing nearby holding an object on their head, three thatched houses, coconut and other trees on the left; Tonga.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1885-1900
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.60 centimetres
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Width: 16.50
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Exact image: Oc,B15.13, Oc,B130.21 and Oc,G.T.1896.
Collection/Photographer: It is now known how this photographic print came int o the BM Pictorial Collection, nor who the photographer is. However, the BM Pictorial Collection owns other photographic prints and a glass negative of this exact image which were acquired as part of J J Lister's collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B15.13