IDNO

LS.120850.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Santa Cruz.
Head & bust of a bearded man.
nose, shell ring in septum. beads in alae.
distended ear-lobes, with beads, rings, &c." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Solomon Islands; Temotu Province [Santa Cruz Islands]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lucas, Walter Henry

Collector / Expedition

Woodford, Charles Morris (Esq.); Royal Geographical Society

Date

1899

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Simpson, Royal Geographical Society

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image in the collections of Royal Geographical Society, reference rgs056699, with the following information: "Santa Cruz Native.
Lucas, W. A. 1899 -- Man of Santa Cruz
1 pho sepia, fair 4 x 6 in." [Image available at gettyimages.co.uk, JD 14/01/2025]

Photographer: In 'New Maps'. The Geographical Journal, vol. 14, no. 6, 1899, pp. 691–96. is the following entry: "Photographs.
Pacific Islands. Lucas.
Eighty-two Photographs of British and German New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Group, and New Hebrides. Taken by W. A. Lucas,
of Balmain, N.S.W. Presented by C. M. Woodford, Esq.
This set of photographs comprises 82 photographs of scenery and the natives of the Western Pacific, as will be seen by the following list:- ... (70, 71, 72) Types of Santa Cruz natives." [Source: JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774645, JD 14/01/2025]