lantern slide (photographic)
- Museum number
- Oc,G.T.2453
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); lantern slide; view of a wooden idol containing human bones, in a sacred garden, in the hills above Melanesian Missionary Hospital, Fauabu; Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Photographic process
- Production date
- 1932-1933 (circa)
- 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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Related image: this image can also be found in Oc,G.T.2122
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Photographer: Rev D L Francis is identified from the below images in the BM Pictorial Collection.
Related images: Oc,A5.10 (stored in the box) and a photographic copy print Oc,CA5.10 (MM034216-139) in the ring binder folder.
Location: The inscription on Oc,A5.10, associates the place in Central North Malaita, above Fauabu. In other words, the view has been taken of above the Melanesian Mission Hospital, Fauabu, where Rev D L Francis was posted.
(eherdman 2009)
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Related image: Oc,G.N.2201 is a glass negative of this image.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,G.T.2453
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 459
