photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B29.17
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of three carved wooden posts that would form part of dubu (ceremonial platform), with palm trees and thatched buildings on stilts in background; Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres (image)
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Height: 22.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 11.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 29 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The mount on this image bears the signature of Charles Seligman who may have collected the image from Captain Barton. Seligman had regular correspondence with Captain Barton indicating that Barton was sending Seligman copies of his photographs in Papua New Guinea. For more information on this correspondence see file SELIGMAN/4/1/1 at the LSE library archives.
The posts are used to hold a platform, the whole structure then becomes a ceremonial platform known as a dubu.
Dubu are made by the Motu and the Koita peoples.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B29.17