Accession No
TEMP.00072
Description
Pastel drawing on paper drawings of a young boy in profile by Emmeline Deane. It is inscribed in pastel 'E.D. / 1895 / Boy (aged 13) from Island of Pentacost / New Hebrides'.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Vanuatu; Pentacost Island
Period
Source
Deane, Emmeline (Miss) [artist and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
TEMP.00072; MAA: AR 1897.668
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. Rip in top right of drawing, the date of this occurring is unknown. See TEMP.00071 for second image of boy, in full-facing. 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 profile. It is inscribed in pastel 'E.D. / 1895 / Boy (aged 13) from Island of Pentacost / New Hebrides'. Cited in the Annual Report dated January 28th 1897 as '665-668. 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: maa
FM:267991
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