Ceremonial hut in Solomon Islands

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
SOLOMON 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

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