Detail View: Image Archives: Bougainville Island

File Name: 
2015.12-32.jpg
catalog number: 
2015.12-32
collection: 
Image Archives
title: 
Bougainville Island
creator: 
Conrad J. Johnson
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Jill Skorpen
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Bouganville Island, Pidia Village. Typed on envelope "An entire native family standing in front of their house at Pidia Village. Note fish-nets drying on the roof of the hut. The elderly woman in the center of the group taught me how the Pidia Villagers made their pottery. August 1949, CJ Johnson." Scanning and access made possible by a grant from NEH.
subject terms: 
Johnson Collection; Bougainville Island; Papua New Guinea; People; Indigenous people; Pidia Village; Buildings; Structures; Thatch roof
date: 
August 1949
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
Papua New Guinea, Autonomous Region of Bougainville
modified: 
no
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
3.99 MB
source: 
5.6 cm x 5.6 cm B/W Nitrate negative Scanned with Epsom Expressions 10000 XL at 2400 dpi 16-bit greyscale.
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature and Science