IDNO

LS.120753.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "New Britain, Bismarck Archip.
"Gazelle Peninsula.
Man, 1/2 length, front & side view.
Whitened hair & beard.
Ornament round forehead.
Numerous shell-rings on left arm." [manuscript in ink]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Tongaru

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1900

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in A.B. Meyer & R. Parkinson. Papuan Album II (Dresden, 1900), pl. 2. [JD 25/6/2012]

Related Archive: In folder FG1/1/9, a listing of Meyer & Parkinson's lanternslides provides the following caption: "Western parts of Germany Guinea. Meyer & Parkingson, Papua Album II 1900.
"New Britain
XXII Tongaru, man of Gazelle Peninsula.
Full grown man with the usual razed beard, a double row of ornamental scars on forehead and cheeks as well as on the stomach, a large number of shell-rings on one of the arms, made of a species of ‘Trochus’ and called ‘Lalai’. He wears a frontlet and a bush of feathers as head-ornament (compare R. Parkinson: In the Bismark Archipelego’, 1887, p.110 sq.9 plate facing p.136)." [JD 09/11/2021]

Publication: Image published in A.B. Meyer & R. Parkinson. Papuan Album II (Dresden, 1900), pl. 2, and captioned: "Mann von Gazelle Halbinsel, New Pommern.
Native of Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain." [JD 25/6/2012]