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Title
Solomon Island natives
Creator
Johnson, Martin, 1884-1937
Date Created and/or Issued
1917
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jack London Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information
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Description
One man lies on mat, another young man sits beside him with a needle in his mouth, and a third sits with hands working on prone man's head. Other men watch. Straw mats and coconut hulls in background.
Title transcribed from envelope. Date devised by cataloger. . Verso of photo reads: "Looks like a tattooing party - which is no 'party' but nerve torture."
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; 9 x 12 cm
Identifier
JLP 300
463427
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll7/id/291
Subject
Indigenous peoples--Solomon Islands
Tattooing--Oceania
Black-and-white photographs. (aat)
Place
Solomon Islands.
Source
Jack London Collection
Box 461, Photographs: Prints: P-Sr
Jack London Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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