[Merig, from the west, showing landing. Banks Group]

photograph

[Merig, from the west, showing landing. Banks Group]

1906

120mm. x 160mm. (half plate)

Child

Beattie, John Watt. Diary 1906. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Ms 1045.

John Watt Beattie South and Western Pacific negatives

glass/inorganic material

Gelatin dry plate negative

Glass plate negative

Negative

Photographic techniques

Canoes and canoeing/Library of Congress subject headings

Merig (Banks Islands)

Vanuatu

negatives/photographs/AAT Visual Works

Caption from Catalogue of a series of photographs illustrating the scenery and peoples of the islands in the south and western Pacific, p.9.

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.

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12 May 2023