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Bamboo raft and paddlers, Torres Islands [Vanuatu]

documentary heritage
  • Kupu whakaahua

    A long raft made of bamboo lashed together is in shallow water. Some people on the raft have paddles. Others stand alongside the raft. Rocky outcrops in the sandy shallows.

  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    39908 (Presto content ID)

    PH-NEG-6617 (Reference Number)

    GN671.T6 (Library of Congress Call Number)

    35355 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Wāhanga

Mātātuhi me ngā tuhinga

Mātātuhi

Rārangi

  • Momo Taonga
  • Ingoa/Taitara
    Bamboo raft and paddlers, Torres Islands [Vanuatu]
  • Kaiwaihanga Matua

     John Beattie (Photographer)

  • 1906
  • Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko

    160 mm. x 210 mm. Full plate.

  • Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
    Child
  • Ngā Tuhipoka Ahanoa Hāngai
    Beattie, John Watt. Diary 1906. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Ms 1045.
    Catalogue of a series of photographs illustrating the scenery and peoples of the islands in the south and western Pacific.
  • He Wāhi Nō
  • Pāoho
  • Tikanga Waihanga
  • Huinga Kaupapa
  • Ngā Taipitopito Tātai Takenga
    Collection obtained by purchase from Beattie's Studios in Hobart, Tasmania, 1933 at a cost of 25.00 pounds. The Melanesian collection had just been shipped when Beattie's Studios were destroyed by fire, destroying John Beattie's Tasmanian negatives.
  • Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana

    Negative 6617 was not given a number by J.W. Beattie and was not included in the photographers catalogue.

    Possibly Tegua

  • 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.
    Brother of Auckland photographer William Beattie and uncle of New Zealand Herald and Auckland Weekly News photographer Bill Beattie
  • Manatārua
    Cultural permissions apply
  • Whakahounga o Mua
    01 Dec 2023

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