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

Images (Click to view full size):