photographic print(black and white);
cabinet card
- Museum number
- Oc,B42.4
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); cabinet card; portrait of two women sitting on a plant fibre mat outdoors with a child standing between them; the woman on the left is wearing a plant fibre necklace, an off the shoulder top with plant fibre tassels, a bark cloth skirt, and a flower in her hair; the woman sitting on the right is wearing a shirt, a woven plant fibre garment tied around her neck, a plant fibre skirt, and a ring; Tonga.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1889-1890
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.70 centimetres (image)
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Height: 12 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 14.80 centimetres (image)
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Width: 16.50 centimetres (mount)
- Curator's comments
- Related images: Oc,B42 through Oc,B55 all contain Joseph Jackson Lister donation images.
Related image: the glass negative for this image exists in the BM Pictorial Collection: Oc,G.N.1613.
Exact image: Oc,B42.4, Oc,B130.54 and Oc,B55.2
Inscription: "Viko & Friend" is inscribed on the envelope accompanying Oc,G.N.1613 (glass negative). It it unclear which of the three people in the image is named "Viko".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Foxing.
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B42.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc-G.N.-1613 (BM glass negative series number)