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Object Number 2004.29.23314
Display Title Man leaning against poles
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Torres Islands / New Hebrides / Banks. Is."; printed on photograph: "A man of Lok, Torres Group. / 380. Beattie-Hobart."
Department Photographic
Date 1906
Artist John Watt Beattie
Culture
  • Vanuatu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Vanuatu
Additional Geographic Terms Torres Islands, Lok
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 15.24 cm (8 × 6 in.)

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