lantern slide (photographic)
- Museum number
- Oc,G.T.1736
- Title
- Series: Katherine Routledge
- Description
-
Lantern Slide (black and white); back view of the Hoa Hakananai'a, moai (figure carving), depicting petroglyphs, including an ao (dance paddles), and birdmen.
Photographic process
- Production date
-
20thC(early)
-
1868 (HMS Topaze)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 8.20 centimetres
-
Width: 8.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
-
Overview of Routledge collection: This collection of lantern slides were photographed during two archaeological expeditions, conducted by William Scoresby Routledge and his wife Katherine Maria Routledge. The majority of the collection was photographed during the ‘Mana Expedition’ in 1913-1915 to Easter Island, which also stopped in Chile and Juan Fernandez Islands on route. Whilst in Chile, Routledge enlisted the aid of Chilean men and boys. One boy from Juan Fernandez is depicted in a number of images, used as a scale guide. Subsequent expeditions to Mangareva, Raivaevae, and Rapa Iti were made in 1921-1923, during which a smaller number of images were made.
Photographer: The name of the photographer is not known, however, Routledge clearly states in her book that an unnamed person was employed especially to take photographs. Furthermore, it is strongly believed that Katherine Maria Routledge played a strong role in instructing the photographer as to what and how views were to be photographed.
Artist: The collection also contains several sketches by an unidentified artist depicting views of Easter Island. In some cases, the artist could possibly be K M Routledge, but there is no additional information to support this.
Maps and diagrams: There are several maps and diagrams in the collection, depicting the routes taken during the expedition, and listing where Moai (figure carvings) were excavated on Easter Island.
Objects: Some of the photographs depict objects discovered on Easter Island, now in different museums and/or private collections.
-
Related image: This image has been published in Love, Charles M "The Katherine Routledge lantern slide collection" Museum of Mankind, British Museum.
The BM Pictorial Collection owns a photographic copy print of this lantern slide in its collection; See MM008580 and MM008995.
Location: This image depicts the Hoa Hakananai'a figure in the British Museum.
Collector & Context: Routledge would have used this image in her research about Easter Island. The sculpture was collected from the ceremonial village of Orongo on Easter Island. It was collected and brought back to London on board HMS Topaze in 1868.
See also: Oc,G.T.1735.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Mana Expedition (?) 1913-1915
- Acquisition date
- 1970's
- Acquisition notes
- A collection of lantern slides owned by Katherine Maria Routledge and donated to the British Museum in around the 1970's, numbered Oc-G.T.-1453 through to Oc-G.T.-1784.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,G.T.1736
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: 17 (BM old lantern slide series number)
-
Miscellaneous number: MM009146 (Museum of Mankind copy print number)