photographic slide(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.5535
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a carved and decorated, wood Urapmin shield, being held by a man outdoors; the man wears a headdress, nose ornaments, necklace, armbands, leg bands and penis-sheath; the shield has geometric and linear designs, and is coloured with pigment; mountain in the background; Telefomin, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 16 March 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.E. 1964, TIFALMIN
TECHNOLOGY. BONE CAVES. EELS. MUMU. MEDICAL. KOWANTIN. SHIELDS. TRAVEL. ELECTION."
Mount notes: this transparency was in a box with handwritten notes: "Urapmin with shield 16/3/64".
This collection of slides relates to the prints in the BM collection Oc,B107 and B108.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: British Museum Expedition to Papua New Guinea 1963 - 1964
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.T.5535
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: NG.E.30 (Cranstone number)
