IDNO

LS.120602.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "B.N.G. S.E.
Rossel Is.
63. Pig fattened for feast.
64. Smothering the pig. (2 slides)." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay Province; Louisiade Archipelago; Yela [British New Guinea; Rossel Island]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Armstrong, Wallace Edwin

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1919 - 1921

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Photographer: The photographer was previously recorded as '?Armstrong, Wallace Edwin', but the annotation 'QF' on the catalogue card has now been identified as used by W. E. Armstrong. The Photographer and Date fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 29/1/2013]

Publication: Image published in Armstrong, W.E., 1928. Rossel Island: An Ethnological Study (Cambridge University Press), plate XXIVa, with the following caption:
"Pig fattened for feast." [JD 2/5/2013]