Two Dancing Girls from Little Makin - Gilbert Islands

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20217

Title

p. 15, Two dancing girls from Little Makin - Gilbert Islands. Belonging to dancers brought by Chief Karaiti to Butaritari to complete with local dancers.

Description

Two dancing girls from Little Makin - Gilbert Islands. Belonging to dancers brought by Chief Karaiti to Butaritari to complete with local dancers.

The image is from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Equator' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around the Gilbert Islands and Samoa in 1889.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1889

Size

23.3 x 18.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Writers' Museum

The Gilbert Islands (formerly known as the Kingsmill Islands) are a chain of 16 atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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