IDNO

LS.120806.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Solomon Is.
Rubiana (? or San Cristoval)
View inside Canoe House, Rubiana, showing post carved to represent crocodile and skulls under the roof." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Woodford, Charles Morris

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1884 - 1889

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Royal Geographic Society

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image held at the British Museum, reference Oc,B34.23, with the following information:
Description: Photograph (black and white); interior of a head house, with supporting poles carved as crocodiles and a line of skulls along the rafters; Roviana, Solomon Islands.
Albumen print
Photographed by: Charles M Woodford
Production date
1886-1888
Production place
Photographed in: Roviana
Oceania: Melanesia: Solomon Islands: west-central Solomons: New Georgia group: New Georgia Island: Roviana
Dimensions: Height: 14.80 centimetres (image) (image)
Height: 16.40 centimetres (mount) (mount)
Width: 10.60 centimetres (image) (image)
Width: 10.80 centimetres (mount) (mount)
Inscriptions: "Interior of Head House Rubiana, Solomon Is. (C.M.Woodford)." [handwritten in pen on front of mount]" [www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Oc-B34-23, JD 15/01/2025]