photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B35.11
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a mungeri (canoe building), with three men sitting outside; in the foreground is a small ceremonial thatched construction on stilts used to store skulls; Solomon Islands.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.20 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 13.90 centimetres
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Width: 14.40 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 11.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Photographic copy print of this image: Oc,CB35-11 (Old Number: MM034103/10)
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This image has been published in:
Somerville, B. T. (1897) Ethnographical notes in New Georgia, Solomon Islands. in Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 26.
Caption: "Canoe House, Munggeri, with small "house" containing a skull in foreground"
Somerville may have the photographer of this image, but there is no available information as confirmation.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- red mark/pen on front of image
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B35.11