lantern slide (photographic)
- Museum number
- Oc,G.T.2259
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; five women posing outdoors, one holds a baby; students at the Melanesian Mission School, run by Deacon Robert Pantuntun; a thatch-constructed building behind them; Mota, Vanuatu.
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
- Related image: Oc,G.T.2258 is the same image
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
- 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.2259
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 22
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Miscellaneous number: 558(a) (Museum of Mankind number)
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Miscellaneous number: 63 (Beattie photographic series number)