item details
NameWork Gang Planting Yams
ProductionReverend John Arthur Crump; photographer; circa 1894-1903; New Britain
Classificationblack-and-white negatives, group portraits
Materialssheet glass, silver, photographic plates
Dimensions4.5, 6.5
Registration NumberB.002892
Credit lineThe late Rev. John A Crump Collection. Gift of Mrs J.A. Crump, 1935
Overview
View of a group of 10 Melanesian men. Five of them are using digging sticks to break up the soil before planting