IDNO

LS.120786.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Solomon Is.
N. Bourganville [sic Bougainville].
Young man, head & bust, side & front.
hair in long ringlets, a form of hair dressing after having been for a time ‘Matasesin’, i.e. initiated into secret soc.
Tridacna shell (?) in nose." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands; North Bougainville

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

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. 44, and captioned: "Jungling vom Nord Bouganville, Salomo Inseln.
Young man of Bourganville, Solomon Islands." [JD 25/6/2012]