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Bishop Wilson at Bugotu

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Bishop Cecil Wilson holding a baby in a village on Santa Isabel Island, formerly known as Bugotu Island, in the Solomon Islands. The baby has been identified as Hugo Hebola's son.

Last Update: 11 May 2023

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89579 (Presto content ID)

PH-NEG-5415 (Reference Number)

312X (Photographer's number)

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Bishop Wilson at Bugotu

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John Beattie (Photographer)

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1900-1906

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160 mm. x 120 mm. (half plate)

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Child

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John Watt Beattie South and Western Pacific negatives

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glass/inorganic material

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Gelatin dry plate negative

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Santa Isabel Island (Solomon Islands)

Wilson, Cecil, 1860-1941

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negatives/photographs/AAT Visual Works

Content

Full inscription on plate reads: "Bishop Wilson at Bugotu. 312X."

Public Access Text

Royal Society of Tasmania MSS RS.29/3.

Beattie, J.W. Journal of a Voyage to the Western Pacific in the Melanesian Mission Yacht Southern Cross 25 August-10 November 1906.

"We reached Buala at about 2 o'clock, and after lunch went ashore. It is a nice collection of houses under a high range of hills. There is a very fine church, and here it is that Hugo Hebala resides and works. There is a big island lying close to the land to the eastward called Fera. It is also the property of Dr Welchman, being about 3 miles long and 1/2 broad. The skipper and party went ashore there shooting ducks, but were not very successful. There were a good many visitors from the shore to the ship, and we lay here all night."

Writing on negative postdates print.

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Last Update

11 May 2023

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