IDNO
LS.120825.TC1
Description
On Catalogue Card: "Solomon Is.
Ulawa, near San Cristoval.
House & group of natives.
Oblong house on ground - front mostly open." [manuscript in ink]
On Catalogue Card for duplicate image P.3117.ACH1: "House and natives, Ulawa."
Place
Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands; Makira-Ulawa Province; near Makira; Ulawa [San Cristobal; San Cristoval]
Cultural Affliation
Named Person
Photographer
Woodford, Charles Morris
Collector / Expedition
Royal Geographic Society
Date
April - October 1886
Collection Name
Teaching Slide Collection
Source
Royal Geographic Society
Format
Lantern Slide Black & White
Primary Documentation
Other Information
On related archive: "No. 9. Club or public house, Ulawa Id. One of the natives wears a frontlet of cowries & crescent shaped ornamet of pearl shell." [Woodford's letter dated 7 October 1890 in MAA Correspondence]
Related Image: Same image in 'Two albums of photographs taken during a voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands from April to October 1886, and additional loose photographs, and in the care of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, reference AU PMB PHOTO 56-048, and captioned "Three men, one woman and two chidren in front of small canoe house [Uji]." [https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php/three-men-one-woman-and-two-chidren-in-front-of-small-canoe-house-uji, JD 16/01/2025]
FM:255475
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