IDNO

P.9750.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Banyan tree." [typed text, circa 1935]

A large Banyan tree in a garden. [JD 27/10/2008]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Samoa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

J. Davis Photo (Davis, John)

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

circa 1880 - 1900

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. Davis worked in Samoa (see following note). The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 27/10/2008]

Photographer: John Davis was a commercial photographer based in Apia, Samoa in the 1880s and 90s. After Davis's death the business was continued by A. J. Tattersall. [Source: RCS Photographers Index, www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photographers/entry.php?id=150, JD 27/10/2008]

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