negative(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.N.2993
- Title
- Series: Ellis Silas
- Description
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Negative (black and white); Ellis Silas painting, wearing a hat, holding a paint palette and a paint brush, with an easel in front of him, surrounded by children and a few adult men and women, wearing plant fibre skirts; thatched roof buildings in the background; Kavatari, Papua New Guinea.
Cellulose nitrate
- Production date
- 1921-1924
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.30 centimetres
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Width: 12.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The BM Pictorial Collection owns two exact photographic prints of this negative, which have been printed in a mirror image; See Oc,B109.14, Oc,B109.15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980's
- Acquisition notes
- A relation of Ellis Silas donated a collection of photographs, postcards and negatives. Many of the images were photographed by Ellis Silas.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.N.2993
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc-B109-14 (BM Photographic Print number)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc-B109-15 (BM Photographic Print number)