IDNO

P.98451.LAY

Description

On Catalogue Card for related image P.3848.ACH1: Gongs an image-pole at Bat-ne-tamp. Malekula, South West Bay, Seniang district. (references to J.R.A.I. LVIII, 1928).

“229. S. W. Bay.”
“Gongs”
[Layard's caption, 1914 - 1915]

“Malekula, Southwest Bay, Batnetamp.
Gongs in centre of dancing ground”
[Layard's caption, 1914 - 1915]

Vertical slit-gong drums, carved with faces, with wooden figurative pole amongst them. [H. Geismar 24/02/03]

Physical Condition: Negative badly exposed. [H. Geismar 24/02/03]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Vanuatu; Malakula; South West Bay; Batnetamp [New Hebrides; Malekula]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Layard, John Willoughby

Collector / Expedition

Date

1914 - 1915

Collection Name

Layard Collection

Source

Layard, Richard

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.98437.LAY to P.98452.LAY were found in the envelope now numbered C523/1/, which was loose in the wooden box now numbered C523/ with N.98453.LAY to N.98589.LAY.

Related Image: See notes for P.3833.ACH1.

Related Image: Compare Deacon (e.g. P.3884.ACH1) and Layard’s photographs of the vertical slit-gong drums from the same area, and also to Layard’s photos of drums on Vao (P.3772.ACH1) and Atchin.

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund.

This catalogue record has been updated to incorporate information published in Geismar and Herle, 2008. Descriptions by Haidy Geismar have been updated to incorporate place and peoples' name and indigenous words. [Jocelyne Dudding 28/4/2009]