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Ann Skinner-Jones and Joan Larcom Photographs

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library

About this Collection

In 1981, Anthropologist Joan Larcom traveled with Photographer Ann Skinner-Jones to Vanuatu to create a photographic essay of the people and culture during the first anniversary of the country's independence from France and the United Kingdom. The collection focuses on the people's experiences of independence and new nationhood, mostly on the island of Malakula, where local people have refereed the interface between politics, custom and religion by re-categorizing tradition in creative ways. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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354 items found in this collection

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Abandoned Lamango Plantation Copra-Smoking Shed
Aiyang and her daughter
Aiyang washes up after a meal
Alick Luan Ballot in Vanuatu Pati 1981 Election
Alick Luan campaigns for local council first election at Wintua meeting hall
Ambong and his daughter Esta grate tubers for lap lap
Ambong arrives home with tubers for lap lap
Ambong Masing opens coconuts for lap lap
Ambong removes spine of lap lap leaf
Ambongs family puts lap lap onto the leaf
Ancestral land marked by sacred stone
Art work revived
Bamboo ladder used here for collecting coconuts
Bamboo materials for house construction
Bamboo poles ready for the next house construction
Bamboo wall woven pattern
Banyan tree string figure
Beautiful plantation
Boy with Uke
Boyd Memorial Clinic 1 of 2
Boyd Memorial Clinic 2 of 2
Boys playing outside of village after school
Bunk beds for children from Lawa and Labo at South West Bay …
Cacao curing shed Lorlow
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