digital photograph
- Museum number
- Oc,Ca46.17
- Title
- Series: Thomas Edge-Partington album 6
- Description
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Digital image of a photograph of two men in body ornaments standing in the sea.
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- Curator's comments
- This photograph is published in Burt (2008) 'Body Ornaments of Malaita' page 10, with the following caption (abridged):
These men, photographed probably in To'abaita, north Malaita, in the 1900s or 1910s display their fine ornaments as well as imported axe and gun, lavalavas and vest. They both have serrated-conus (komegiria) rings and pattern-bamboo (fa'i'augwaroa) ear ornaments, long nose-pins (usuusu), conus (fa'ikome) rings on their arms, necklaces ('alu'alu) of glass beads, girdles (fo'osae) of the coiled type, as well as leather straps ('abatarafa), one with a whistle hanging from the buckle. The man on the left also seems to have a large conus (kome) ring hanging from his ear and an enclosed-strap ('ababanibani) glass-bead armband holding his pipe. The other has cowries (buli), a hornbill feather and a shell-disk (sa'ela'o) on his head, north Malaita-style pattern-straps ('abagwaro) on his arms, and a conus-rattle (ketekome) on his leg. (Edge-Partington album, photographer unknown)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- Copied from an album of photographs compiled by Thomas W. Edge-Partington prior to 1920, in possession of his son Capt. Thomas K. Edge-Partington, who assigned conditional copyright to the British Museum in 2005 (See PicDoc 186).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,Ca46.17