35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.5431
- Description
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Slide (colour); Tifalmin pig hunters and an anthropologist carrying a pig trussed on a pole home; they walk on a grassy path in between mountains, carrying their weapons with them; Tifalmin Valley, Papua New Guinea.
35mm slide
- Production date
- 30 Jan 1964
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 5 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 3.60 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bryan Cranstone's, British Museum fieldwork images, from an expedition in 1963 - 64.
The title of this box of slides reads: "N.G.D. 1964, TIFALMIN
People, Subsistence, Pigs, Houses + Villages, Technology".
Mount notes: this transparency was in a box with handwritten notes: "Pig hunters going home 30/1/64".
This collection of slides relates to the prints in the BM collection Oc,B107 and B108.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The adhesive on the label with handwritten inscription that had been attached to the matt of this transparency has failed, and the label is now detached.
- Associated events
- Associated Event: British Museum Expedition to Papua New Guinea 1963 - 1964
- Acquisition notes
- Photographs taken on a British Museum Expedition to Papua New Guinea between December 1963 and May 1964 (B.A.L. Cranstone, Assistant Keeper, and D.J. Lee, Museum Assistant).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.T.5431
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: NG.D.26 (Cranstone number)
