Accession No

TEMP.00071


Description

Pastel drawing on paper of a young boy in full-face by Emmeline Deane. It is inscribed in pastel '1895 / Boy from Pentacost Island, New Hebrides / age 13. Son of a cannibal'.


Place

Oceania; Melanesia; Vanuatu; Pentacost Island


Period


Source

Deane, Emmeline (Miss) [artist and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

TEMP.00071; MAA: AR 1897.667


Cultural Affliation

Ni-Vanuatu


Material

Paper; Pigment


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (References)
University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Annual Report, January 28th 1897, p. 4 and. 13, nos. 665-668.
Noted as as specially drawn by Miss Emmeline Deane for presentation to the Museum. They form, with the excellent likeness of a Canton woman presented by the same artist some years ago, the nucleus of a very interesting series of types' and 'Four portraits in pastel, life size, of a Soudanese and a Vate (New Hebrides) boy; head; full-face and in profile, of each subject. The artist, Miss Emmeline Deane.'
Event Date 11/3/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (CMS Context)
Drawing mounted on card. See TEMP.00072 for second image of boy, in profile. Found astray in March 2011.
Event Date 11/3/2015
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
1 unaccessioned pastel on paper drawings of a young boy in full-face. It is inscribed in pastel '1895 / Boy from Pentacost Island, New Hebrides / age 13. Son of a cannibal'.
Event Date 11/3/2015
Author: maa


FM:267990

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