lantern slide (photographic)
- Museum number
- Oc,G.T.2183
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; A group of men, including two White men, standing in the sea beside a row/whale boat named "Canterbury" on the shoreline; the men are wearing nose and ear ornaments, plant fibre arm ornaments, and necklaces; ship visible in the distance; Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Photographic process
- Production date
- 1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.20 centimetres
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Width: 8.20 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- 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
The row/whale boat has the inscription "CANTERBURY" painted onto the inside.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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.2183