Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Bamboo raft and paddlers, Torres Islands [Vanuatu]
Primary Maker
Date
1906
Physical Description
160 mm. x 210 mm. Full plate.
Level of Current Record
Child
Related Object Notes
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.
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Provenance Details
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.
Public Access Text
Negative 6617 was not given a number by J.W. Beattie and was not included in the photographers catalogue.
Possibly Tegua
Subject Notes
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
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Last Update
01 Dec 2023
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