At Lamalama, Raga - N. Hebrides

documentary heritage

Several small outrigger canoes paddle in calm water. Headland in the distance.

Last Update: 15 Nov 2023

Other Id

39854 (Presto content ID)

PH-NEG-5593 (Reference Number)

GN671.N9 (Library of Congress Call Number)

39 (Photographer's number)

35351 (DBTextworks system ID)

Department

Photography

Public Access Text

"Coast at Lamalama, looking north" Catalogue of a series of photographs illustrating the scenery and peoples of the islands in the south and western Pacific, p.7.

John Watt Beattie, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, began photography in Hobart, Tasmania in 1882. He travelled to Melanesia in 1906 in the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross". Beattie was well known in Tasmania as a photographer/explorer.

At Lamalama, Raga - N. Hebrides

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