IDNO

LS.75627.

Description

Half-length portrait of a New Caledonian woman sitting facing the camera. [JD 22/05/2017]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; New Caledonia; North Caledonia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Sarasin, Fritz and Sarasin, Paul (Drs)

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1887 - 1893

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.

Bibliographical Reference: In Ammann, Raymond, 2012. ‪Sounds of Secrets: Field Notes on Ritual Music and Musical Instruments on the Islands of Vanuatu (‬‪LIT Verlag Münster) p.12 is the following information
Para di Chlor Benzine.":
"In 1910 Swiss anthropologists and naturalists travelled in Melanesia and carried out field research. Fritz Sarasin accommopanied by the biologist Jean Roux stayed in New Caledonia (Sarasin 1929, 2009) while Sarain's nephew Felix Speiser (Speiser 1923, 1991) travelled during the same period in the New Hebrides (Former name of Vanuatu). Besides collecting and describing objects the two researchers wrote detailed ethnographies and at least Sarasin set it - indicating his many doubts - in relation to the Kulturkreislehre formed by Leo Frobenius ... " [Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XaDOVMhlqZIC&dq=%22new+caledonia%22+sarasin&source=gbs_navlinks_s, JD 5/22/2017]