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Girl with group of moai
130-a039928 · Item · [193-]
Part of James B. W. Cater fonds

Photograph depicts a group of moai monolithic sculptures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). A young girl is visible standing on one of the moai.

130-a039932 · Item · [193-]
Part of James B. W. Cater fonds

Photograph depicts a group of people in front of a pole with a structure visible in the background. The photograph was taken on Rapa Nui (Easter Islands). The photograph is slightly overexposed.

James B. W. Cater fonds
130 · Fonds · [193-]

Fonds consists of five glass plate negatives taken in the early 1930s by James B. W. Cater when he worked for a farming company on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle.

Glass plate negatives feature: a young girl posed in front of a moai, the monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people; a portrait of a young girl; group portraits taken outdoors.

James B. W. Cater
Portrait of a girl
130-a039929 · Item · [193-]
Part of James B. W. Cater fonds

Photograph depicts a young girl with a crown of flowers in her hair. The photograph was taken on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).