35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.6191
- Description
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Slide (colour); view of five bowls on the ground, one is filled with coconut milk, one with red paint, one with purple paint, one with water, one with roots from the Aitembur plant; a person is kneeling next to the bowls, holding a mixing stick; 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: "Red and purple colours were obtained by scraping root of aitembur plant (Morinda citrifolia) and by mixing it with coconut milk or with 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.6191
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 87 (Wronska-Friend number)
