lantern slide (photographic)
- Museum number
- Oc,G.T.2210
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; two boys posing outdoors; they wear ear ornaments, nose ornaments, arm bands and belts; a thatched round house and a group of men are visible on the edge of the image; trees in the background; Santa Cruz Islands, 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.
Related images: Oc,G.T.2193 and 2210.
- 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.2210
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 58 (Beattie Series Number, lantern slide)