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Title: Indigenous dwelling, Ambrym, Vanuatu, 1903
Creator: Gunn, William, missionary, New Hebrides, 1853-1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1903
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: “Women’s hut (heathen) in Ambrim [Ambrym].” Exterior view of a rough dwelling made with matting and large leaf branches. This is an example of conditions for women and children living apart from the men in the north of the island, where the huts are only four or five feet high with a small entrance.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 14.6 x 9.6 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75654129-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79903
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75654129-1.jpg
Subject: Dwellings
Huts
Women
Time Period: 1903
Place: Ambrym
Malampa Province
Oceania
Vanuatu
Source: Acc.7548/F/20 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75654127 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs of Aneityum, New Hebrides, South Sea Islands taken by the Rev. Dr. Gunn
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