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Title
Man carving statues, Solomon Islands, Oceania, 1938
Creator
Fides
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
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
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
Photograph of a man sitting on a branch carving statues out of wood. There are three axes and hatchets on the ground by the end of the log the man is sitting on. The man is facing the right side of the photo carving a statue out of a piece of wood. Two statues are on the ground behind the log. A group of people are under a shelter watching the man from a distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
13 x 18 cm
photograph
Identifier
impa-m64679 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-SolomonIslands-01-013
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64679
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-SolomonIslands-01-013.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Men
Woodworking
Carving
Statues
General views
Time Period
1938
Place
Oceania
Solomon Islands
Source
MFB/SolomonIslands/01/013 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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