IDNO

LS.120852.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Santa Cruz. OC.III.C.41
Typical House, oblong on ground.
3 [male symbol] in front, 1 standing with white disc on chest." [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 PR/056698, with the following information: "Typical house, Santa Cruz.
Lucas, W. A. Hut in the Soloman islands 1899 -- 1899 -- 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:- ... (69) Typical house, Santa Cruz." [Source: JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774645, JD 14/01/2025]