Set of mounted prints of people and places by William George Lawes

Groups include: first New Guinea students; girls poling canoe; group of tatooed women. People include: portraits of individuals including tatooed woman's back; woman with shaved head [widow]; Delena woman; profile of two boys from Motumotu with shaved heads and two tufts of hair; two Kaile boys; Sou...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/19/10/04/010 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 8
Date(s) of creation: c.1880 - c.1906
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.19.10.04.010
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 8
callnumber CWM/LMS/19/10/04/010
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/19/10/04/010
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/19/10/04/010
prefix_number 010
scb_previous_numbers 2, 13, 17, 29, 31, 34, 60, 63, 76, 82, 122, 123, 130
title Set of mounted prints of people and places by William George Lawes
scb_date_creation c.1880 - c.1906
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 40 mounted albumen prints
format Archive
description Groups include: first New Guinea students; girls poling canoe; group of tatooed women. People include: portraits of individuals including tatooed woman's back; woman with shaved head [widow]; Delena woman; profile of two boys from Motumotu with shaved heads and two tufts of hair; two Kaile boys; South Sea teacher in New Guinea; Aisi, chief of Delena; men from Kairuku district [Delena]; girls with water pots; crocodile heroine with two other girls; mothers with baby bags; girls at play; boys playing game of frog; "natives" digging . Activities include: boys smoking bau bau, Delena; building canoes, Kerepunu. Places or buildings include: LMS college, Vatorata; village houses, ?Mauukoto; marine village, Tupuselei [Port Moresby]; marine church, Kaile; native church, Port Moresby; native teacher's house, ?Rigo; view from mission house, Port Moresby; mission house and school, main street, Port Moresby. Also includes: lakatori with crab claw sails; sacred platform,Dubu, Rigo; mission rowing boat with crew. Pictures taken by/received from: Possibly William George Lawes
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright expired
scb_file_number 10 (2 parts - A & B)
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0019.0010.0004.00010

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