Unidentified Solomon Island Man

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Title

Unidentified Solomon Island Man

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Studio portrait of a young man standing, 3/4 profile view. He is wearing finely beaded strings across his chest, upper arms and forearm. He is also wearing a beaded waistband which has a British flag on it. In addition he has two large, cylindrical earrings, shells and string in his hair and a large feather sticking from the top of his head. He is holding a painted stick which has a carved fish on it.

Format

Image

Date created

1890-1910

Creator

Thomas Andrew

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/211683

Related subjects

Indigenous peoples / Earrings / Wood carvings / Feathers / Solomon Islands / Solomon Islander / photographic prints / portraits / black-and-white prints

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