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]