IDNO

LS.120759.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "New Britain, Bismarck Archip.
Herbertshohe.
Fish traps (2 slides)
14 shows anchor basket, filled with blocks of coral, & cables." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; New Britain; Gazelle Peninsula; Kokopo [Herbertshohe]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Lucas, Walter Henry

Collector / Expedition

Woodford, Charles Morris (Esq.); Royal Geographical Society

Date

?1899

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Simpson, Royal Geographical Society

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Photographer: In 'New Maps'. The Geographical Journal, vol. 14, no. 6, 1899, pp. 691–96. is the following entry: "Photographs.
Pacific Islands. Lucas.
Eighty-two Photographs of British and German New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Group, and New Hebrides. Taken by W. A. Lucas,
of Balmain, N.S.W. Presented by C. M. Woodford, Esq.
This set of photographs comprises 82 photographs of scenery and the natives of the Western Pacific, as will be seen by the following list:- ... New Britain (21) Fishing village, Herbertshohe. [This image is not listed on the R.G.S. catalogue]." [Source: JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774645, JD 14/01/2025]