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Title: Missionary with Vanuatuans mourning death of a chief, Anatom, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1890
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
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Description: “Group of natives gathered at the wailing of the death of a chief.” Exterior view showing James Hay Lawrie leaning on a tree next to a group of indigenous men and women seated at the wake of a chief. There could be several chiefs in one particular village and their influence varied from one to another. Lawrie was a Presbyterian missionary from Edinburgh and based on Aneityum [Anatom], New Hebrides [Vanuatu], from 1879-1896. Later he was minister of several charges in New South Wales. He died in 1929.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 10 x 7.1 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75653976-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79542
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653976-1.jpg
Subject: Lawrie, James Hay, missionary, New Hebrides, 1849-1929
Ceremonies
Funerals
Tribal chiefs
Time Period: circa 1890
Place: Anatom
Oceania
Tafea Province
Vanuatu
Source: Acc.7548/F/19 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653974 [File]
Relation: Missions in the New Hebrides’ Islands", ca.1890
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
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