IDNO

P.9744.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Banana

A banana plant with a large spike of bananas. From the hollowed ground, and the second plant behind, the photograph appears to be taken in a plantation. [JD 27/10/2008]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; N America; United States of America; Hawaii

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gonsalves, Joaquin Augusto

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Europe; ?England”, but J. Gonsalves worked in Hawaii (see following note). The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 27/10/2008]

Photographer: Joaquin Augusto Gonsalves immigrated to Honolulu from Madeira as a twenty year old man in 1879, where he set up a photographic studio. Prior to this he had been an apprentice to the photographer J.J. Williams working in a Portuguese newspaper office. [Information taken from the websites ‘www.rjbalrog.com/photos/western/hawaii/index_page3.html’ and ‘www.nalu-music.com/nalu/quotes.html’, JD 27/10/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 27/10/2008]