M0008738: Samoan hut and drop latrine in Tuvalu

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Samoan hut and drop latrine off shore, Ellice Islands.

Reproductions of two photographs showing a type of Samoan hut and a drop latrine at Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu). The reproductions are from O'Connor, Francis W: Researches in the western Pacific : being a report on the results of the expedition sent from the London School of Tropical Medicine to the Ellice, Tokelau, and Samoan Islands in 1921-1922, London: J.C. Phelp, 1923.

01 January 1943

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.