35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.6188
- Description
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Slide (colour); view of five coconut shell bowls on the ground, one containing water, two containing milk, one containing crushed annatto seeds, and the other containing red paint; several pods containing annatto seeds are on the ground next to the coconut shell bowls; Sissano, Papua New Guinea.
35mm slide, polyester
- Production date
- 1992
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.20 centimetres (image)
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Height: 5 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 3.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Context: Maria Wronska-Friend fieldwork images, from an expedition in 1992.
Related images: Oc,F.T.6105 through 6250 are all from the same fieldwork trip.
Notes: PicDoc 140 has a list that corresponds to this slide, the title of the document reads "LIST OF SLIDES ACCOMPANYING COLLECTION FROM THE SISSANO AREA"; with a sub-heading "IV POR- LAGOON CANOES FROM VILLAGES SISSANO AND AROP"; the entry for this slide reads: "Traditional red paint used in canoe decoration was made of seeds of mel tree (Annatto), mixed with coconut milk and water. Sissano."
Related objects: this collection of slides relates to objects in the BM collection Oc1992,01.1 - 245.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Maria Wronska-friend Expedition to Papua New Guinea, Sissano Area 1992
- Acquisition notes
- Photographs taken on expedition to Papua New Guinea in 1992.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.T.6188
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 84 (Wronska-Friend number)
