negative(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.N.3818
- Description
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Negative (black and white); a cooking fire outdoors with food steaming on hot stones, with sacking coveing the fire to keep in the steam; Whakatane, New Zealand.
Photographic Process
- Production date
- 1939
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.50 centimetres
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Width: 3.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: this image is on a roll of film negatives of thirty seven images (Oc,F.N.3813 through 3848). The roll was in a cardboard canister labelled with the number "3"; which was in a wooden box bearing a label with the inscription: "MAORI NEGATIVES Property of Dr. Werner Kissling"
Oc,B127 and Oc,B128 are additionally part of this collection of images from New Zealand by Werner Kissling taken in the late 1930's. Some of the same Kissling images can be found in the photographic collection of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Oc,B128.19 is the exact same image, which was accompanied by an index card typed by Werner Kissling, which reads:
"Pol. N.Z.
Maori Steam-oven
See 68
The food is covered with sacking to keep in the steam* Note primitive way of sealing it tight.
*Green leaves were used to cover the food and flaxmats to keep in the steam before the practice fell into disuse.
Cont.
W. Kissling (1939)."
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.N.3818
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 7 (Film negative roll number)