lantern slide (photographic)
- Museum number
- Oc,G.T.2143
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; a man standing outside a thatched roof round house, wearing a loin cloth, a necklace, nose and ear ornaments, and carrying an unidentified object; two more thatched roof round houses partially visible in background; Tömotu Neo, Solomon Islands.
Photographic process
- Production date
- 1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.20 centimetres
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Width: 8.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Production: photographed by Beattie on a tour of the Melanesian Mission ship Southern Cross from Norfolk Island to Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in 1906.
Bibliography: Beattie's 'Catalogue of a Series of Photographs Illustrating the Scenery and Peoples of the Islands in the South and Western Pacific' can be viewed at: www.anglicanhistory.org/oceania/beattie_catalogue1907.html (refer to the Beattie Photographic Series Number).
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This image has been published and written about by Rev W. C. O'Ferrall, in "Melanesia: Santa Cruz and the Reef Islands" http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/oferrall_santacruz1908/ (see for more information).
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The BM Pictorial Collection owns a photographic print of this image; See Oc,B112.80, Oc,B112.81, Oc,B112.82.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Crack, top left corner.
- Acquisition date
- 1990 (From a collection of about 900 photographs and 140 artefacts donated by the Melanesian Mission in 1991 while disposing of its collections and archives, then at Henley on Thames, facilitated by Ben Burt of the British Museum.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,G.T.2143
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 16 (series number)
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Miscellaneous number: 9 (series number)