photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,lge.3
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); two women, mourners, seated in front of a thatched structure for the dead; they wear plant fibre skirts, neck ornaments, ear ornaments, armlets; other people in background; three thatched buildings on stilts; Kalo, Papua New Guinea.
Albumen Print.
- Production date
- 1885
- Dimensions
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Height: 44.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 44.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 56.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 56.20 millimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Context: This image was taken by Johannes Lindt on the 1885 British expedition of annexation led by Sir Peter Scratchley. Lindt was official photographer for the expedition. The image was then collected by Reverend James Chalmers of the London Missionary Society, who established a mission post in Suau, Papua New Guinea in 1887.
For more information see:
Gidley, M. 1992. Representing Others: white views of indigenous peoples.
Related image:
BM photographic unit copy of this image exists, numbers Oc,CB19..35; and Oc,B19.35 is the same image produced smaller.
This image printed in: Lindt, J W.; "Picturesque New Guinea : With an historical introduction and supplementary chapters on the manners and customs of the Papuans : accompanied with fifty full-page autotype illustrations from negatives of portraits from life and groups and landscapes from nature "; 1887; Longmans, Green and Co; plate XXXI, caption reads "MOURNERS AND DEAD HOUSE AT KALO."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Some yellowing of image, surface dirt - both image and mount, foxing on mount
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,lge.3