photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B98.156
- Title
- Series: Robert A Lever albums
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a young man wearing a cloth wrap around his waist, holding a specimen net, standing out of doors behind a table with plant specimens; a specimen wire gauz/cage is on the grass in front of the table; palm trees and the edge of a western-style building visible in background; Lungga, Solomon Islands.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1936
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 19.30 centimetres (page)
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Width: 8.90 centimetres (image)
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Width: 24.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Related image: this image can be found in: Lever, R. J. A. W. ; ‘A Contribution to the Ecology of a Grassland Community on Guadalcanal Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate’; The Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 6, No. 2. (Nov., 1937), pp. 294, Phot. 2. Caption reads: "Grass plain of Themeda australis and Imperata cylindrica."
The same young man appears in images 5, 9, 46, 48 and 49.
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See also, Oc,A50.45 in the British Museum's Pictoral collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection of five albums and a number of loose photographs, compiled by Robert A Lever and purchased by the British Museum in 2006 through auction.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B98.156
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 5
