IDNO

P.9355.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Head-hunting canoe." [typed text]
"tomako mon" [manuscript in ink]
"cf. Woodford, 1909 p.511, pls. 41-44. J. R. A. I. XXXIX" [typed text on bottom edge]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands; New Georgia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Woodford, Charles Morris

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1884 - 1889

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Woodford, 1909 p.511, pls. 41-44. J. R. A. I. XXXIX. [JD 1/9/2009]

MAA Exhibition: This photograph was included in the text panel for the Tamoko, headhunting canoes, 1948.2628 A, in the Maudslay Gallery during its re-display, May 2012, with the caption:
"Headhunting canoe with toto isu or prow ornament. Roviana, New Georgia, circa 1900. Photograph donated by
Charles Woodford. P. 9355.ACH1." [JD 9/21/2013]

Related Image: The same image is held at the British Museum and attributed to Charles Woodford. [Information by Ben Burt, British Museum, JD, 10/7/2013]