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People and houses on stilts
Object Number 2004.29.23069
Display Title People and houses on stilts
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea (British) / Slade Island / New Guinea (British) / Slade I." Verso: "House and natives - Slade Island / (New Guinea) / Gift of Alexzander Agassiz 1889"
Department Photographic
Date 1855-1889
Culture
  • New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea / <State> / Slade Island
Oceania / British New Guinea
Materials Albumen print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 × 14.605 cm (4 × 5 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Alexander Agassiz

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Engineering group, row of houses
2004.29.23070 Engineering group, row of houses
Slade Island
People in front of homes on stilts made with woven palm fronds
2004.29.22580 People in front of homes on stilts made with woven palm fronds
British New Guinea
Feasting stage admist buildings on stilts with thatched roofs
2004.29.22591 Feasting stage admist buildings on stilts with thatched roofs
British New Guinea
Building on stilts with palm frond roofs
2004.29.22767 Building on stilts with palm frond roofs
British New Guinea
People in front of houses
2004.29.22799 People in front of houses
British New Guinea
People in front of houses
2004.29.22797 People in front of houses
British New Guinea
Cove with houses on stilts
2004.29.22555 Cove with houses on stilts
British New Guinea
Port Moresby
People and thatched buildings on stilts
2004.29.22778 People and thatched buildings on stilts
New Guinea
Media Restricted
 		2004.29.22338 Men in front of house on stilts
New Guinea
Village scene, building on stilts with palm frond roofs
2004.29.22768 Village scene, building on stilts with palm frond roofs
British New Guinea
Bachelor house on stilts with people in front of it
2004.29.22689 Bachelor house on stilts with people in front of it
Sepik
People along shore, with marine village in background
2004.29.22899 People along shore, with marine village in background
Port Moresby