IDNO

LS.120789.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Solomon Is.
Bourgainville, C. l’ Averole, Ernest Gunther Hafer.
Young men preparing for matrimony.
Preparations include ceremony, letting hair drow, & wearing balloon-shaped hats of bamboo & pandanus latin, hair is shaved and hat thrown away.
Meanwhile no woman may see them without hat.
Central man has tattooed face." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands; Bougainville

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1894

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.31 and captioned: "Männer von Bougainville, Salomo Inseln." [JD 10/11/2021]