Set of numbered prints of Mailu district by Rev William James Viritahitemauvai Saville

People include: portraits of mena and women in daily routines including outisde houses; girls playing games; children and babies; Mrs Saville with boys on beach with lakatoi. Groups include: men and women dressed for ceremonial dance, including the Damorea; women playing croquet; boys with toy canoe...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 14
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c. 2935
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 14
Summary: People include: portraits of mena and women in daily routines including outisde houses; girls playing games; children and babies; Mrs Saville with boys on beach with lakatoi. Groups include: men and women dressed for ceremonial dance, including the Damorea; women playing croquet; boys with toy canoes. Places or buildings include: houses and village scenes. Activities include: attaching headdress; pottery; basket making; sewing, fishing; draining sap from tree; bringing boar home from hunting. Also includes: coral; interior of buildings with decorations and skulls; lakatoi. Pictures taken by/received from: Rev William James Viritahitemauvai Saville [1873 - 1948]
Previous numbers: i
Extent: 101 silver gelatin prints
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Saville/Council for World Mission
File number: 79
Format: Archive