photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B30.14
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); of a sketch depicting an Orongo house; Easter Island.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
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1868 (original)
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20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 14.80 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 16.10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 20 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This photographic print of a sketch of an Orongo house is believed to have been sketched during the H.M.S. Topaze visit in 1868, and therefore the earliest known representation of an Orongo house. [See Pic Doc 188].
See also: This image bears a resembalance to Oc,G.T.1702.
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BM Photographic print copy, Oc,CB30.14 MM034138/1
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Cockling
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B30.14