IDNO

LS.120750.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "New Britain, Bismarck Archip.
"Gazelle Peninsula.
Man, front & side view.
Hair artificially curled, rubbed w. burnt lime.
Basket on shoulders.
Shell collar, ‘Middi’, or ‘Niddi’, rare, worth 12-20 fathoms of diwarra, according to width used also as eye-shade from sun." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; New Britain; Gazelle Peninsula

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Meyer, A.B.; Parkinson, R. [Authors]

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in 'Album von Papúa Typen, Neu Guinea und Bismarck Archipel. Etwa 600 Abbildungen auf 54 Tafeln in Lichtdruck. Herausgegeben von A. B. Meyer und R. Parkinson' (Dresden 1894), pl.3 and captioned: "Mann von Neu Pommeru (New Britannien)." [JD 10/11/2021]