IDNO

N.59531.WHR

Description

Side view of face. [YC 09/05/2001]

A head and shoulders portrait of Loki, a Simbo man, sitting side on to the camera and in front of a piece of canvas that is hung as a backdrop. Leoki wears a shell bead collar, frigate bird pendant, and other bead necklaces. He has lime whitened hair, lime marks on his face and wears wooden ring earlobe inserts. [Information provided by Tim Thomas, Otago University, JD 05/05/2017]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands; Simbo [Eddystone; Mandeghusu; Mandegusu]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Leoki

Photographer

?Hocart, Arthur Maurice

Collector / Expedition

Hocart’s and Rivers’ Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia, 1908

Date

1908

Collection Name

Rivers Collection

Source

Format

Glass Negative Quarterplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.59530.WHR and N.59531.WHR were inside the same envelope now numbered C129/72/ which was found in a wooden box marked C129/.

Related Image: This negative appears to be the original image at MAA from which the associated photographs have been derived from. [JD 30/7/2012]