photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc1991,08.366
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) of a Palm Sunday procession at Torgil Girls School in Lolowai, Aoba, Vanuatu
- Production date
- 1947 (Date established by Terry Brown)
- Curator's comments
- From a series of 284 photos made by an un-named photographer on a tour of the Melanesian Mission ship Southern Cross in 1947. Described in the original catalogue as: 233. Led by Novice Aneca, the pupils of the Sisters of the Cross Girls School, Torgil Aoba Is., sing as they form a Palm Sunday procession through the gardens to the chapel.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Printed in 1992 by the British Museum from a series of negatives belonging to the Melanesian Mission, in the course of the donation of collection Oc1991,08. The Mission then donated the negatives to the Melanesian Mission archive at SOAS.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1991,08.366
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 233 (Original Melanesian Mission catalogue number)