Ceremonial hut in Solomon Islands
black-and-white photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSSOLOMON ISLANDS
circa 1943
emulsion on paper
overall: 4 x 2-1/8 in.
Photograph; black-and-white photograph of a ceremonial hut in the Solomon Islands, circa 1943; two women in skirts only, roof and partial walls are intricately patterned and woven (?), totems visible on roof edge; from Henry Strauss transcript in Sound Archives: "This is a native ceremonial hut either on Malaita or Tulaghi."
2004.81.111