Photographic Print

Portrait of an adult male sitting beside a thatched shelter in front of a stone wall. Wearing a loin-cloth [?]. Tattoo [?] on chest. Medium: Gelatin silver print. 1936 (23rd December) Inscription:Inscription type: annotation Inscription quoted: Album title: "LONDON - NAIROBI SAN FRANCISCO - LUZON HONGKONG - SHANGHAI 1935 - 37 MARY S. R. SINCLAIR" [embossed gilt on album cover]. Front end pages: "O 1 - 22 CE 1 - 32 C 1 - 29" [manuscript note]. Original description: "Outside the Bachelors hut in Bontoc. Luzon. 23-XII-36." [manuscript note on print border].
Curators comments:
Cataloguer's comment: Album contains 85 photographs. Main themes of album: Travel by aeroplane from England to northeast and east Africa, from San Francisco to islands in the North Pacific Ocean, the Philippines, Hong Kong and China. Showing aeroplanes, views from aeroplanes and of aerodromes, indigenous people and settlements in the Philippines, settlements in and boats off Hong Kong and China. Albums Af,A8 to Af,A27 and Af,A29 to Af,A33 belong to the same series. Circumstances: [SIN-] PIC DOC 08.
Album bound in full leather. Good condition.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas

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Creator

Photographed by: Mary S R Sinclair

Date

1936 (23rd December)

Identifier

Af,A28.50

Origin

, Made in: Bontoc

Materials

, Gelatin silver printing

Physical Dimensions

Length: 12 centimetres; Width: 18.24 centimetres

Display status

Not on display

Official Website

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af-A28-50

Collection

British Museum

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Photographed by: Mary S R Sinclair, “Photographic Print,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed May 14, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/28669.

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