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Deacon Collection.

Wiley Digital Archives : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, current owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ni-Vanuatu--Vanuatu--Malekula--Photographs.
Ni-Vanuatu.
Ethnology--Vanuatu--Malekula--Photographs.
Ethnology.
Vanuatu--Malekula.
Genre:
Photographs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Production:
1920.
Contents:
A design of concentric and semi-circles, 1920
A geometric design (drawing) on the backboard at Seniang, 1920
A geometric design on a blackboard, 1920
A geometric design (drawing of 'nimbuas hiwelip' or ' niinbuas eliwelip') on the ground at Seniang, 1920
A fragment of prehistoric sacred pottery 'naamboi', 1920
A stone tablet called Nevet Muogh ('the living stone') in a sacred place 'Logo' at Melpmes, 1920
A temes malau mask of nalawan, 1920
A carved wooden image of a man or a Nimagki image, 1920
Two natives standing beside the lower part of a complex tree-fern image or temes, 1920
View of south-west bay, 1920
Head of an old man; profile, 1920
Two women seated, wearing fringe skirts, 1920
A group of five boys; full face, 1920
A ceremonial ground with slit gongs, 1920
A photograph of deacon taken in Malekula about a week before he died, 1920
A bushman standing; profile; full face, 1920
A painted temes (mask), 1920
A woman preparing skirt, 1920
Head of an elderly man; front view, 1920
A group of hauling a large slit gong, 1920
A group of hauling a large slit gong, 1920.
Notes:
Collection no.: DCN.
Online resource.
OCLC:
1090105304
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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