IDNO

LS.75609.

Description

Two Tasiko men of Api Island standing facing the camera and wearing loin-clothes. The men are standing in front of a weatherboard house, possibly part of the Presbyterian Mission which was established on Epi Island in 1890. [JD 22/05/2017]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Vanuatu; Shefa Province; Epi Island

Cultural Affliation

Tasiko

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1886 - 1891

Collection Name

Source

?Minns

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.75549. to LS.75745. were found inside the wooden tray now numbered C360/.

The slides were accompanied by a list providing the number from each geographic area and at times the book from which the image was taken. See Bay N/Shelf3/Box1/.
There was also a note recording that the slides were removed from their original location to make room for Bateman prints.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Oceania Melanesia; ?Papua New Guinea", but the lanternslide is annotated as 'Epi Tasiks', which was in former New Hebrides, now Vanuatu (cf LS.120902.TC1). The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 19/05/2017]

Group: The people of the south end of Epi call themselves Tasiko. [Source: A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1107682029, JD 22/05/2017]

Context: An image with the same type appears in a Slide set: 'Mission work in the New Hebrides' (lecture: Newton & Co., 60 slides, n.d.), 11  Epi. Tasiko Men'. The slides with dates range between 1886 - 1891. [Source: http://www.slides.uni-trier.de/set/index-slide.php?id=3008025, JD 22/05/2017]