Two men hunters, holding muskets, wearing penis sheaths and feathered headbands.

Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
540986i
Part of:
Hawaiian and Samoan portraits.
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Description

The negative from which this print was made is badly scratched

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540986i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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