Mura Bayly photographs and papers
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2010-22
name: label: Collector
content: Bayly, Mura
label: Photographer
content: O. Kurkdjian & Co.
label: Photographer
content: Wegner & Mothe
label: Photographer
content: Martin, Josiah
label: Photographer
content: Sigrist, J.
place: label: Place
content: Fiji
label: Place
content: Java (Indonesia)
label: Place
content: Samoa
label: Place
content: New Zealand
topic: label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Markets
label: Topic
content: Wayang plays
creator: label: Collector
content: Bayly, Mura
culture: label: Culture
content: Javanese (Indonesian people)
label: Culture
content: Maori (New Zealand people)
label: Culture
content: Samoans
label: Culture
content: Fijians
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content: Mura Bayly photographs and papers
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Mura Bayly was born in South Africa and educated in England, France, Germany, and Austria. In the 1910s Bayly traveled throughout Indonesia and the Pacific islands, pursuing ethnological interests. She became well known in New York as a lecturer on Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands, and in 1911, when she was about 25 years old, she was elected as a fellow of the American Geographical Society. Bayly published stories of her travels in American, European, and other periodicals, and she designed her own silk clothing. During her travels Bayly collected skeins of silk fibers and her trips may have focused on clothing design and the acquisition of textiles.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 58 Lantern slides
label: Extent
content: 192 Prints (silver gelatin, albumen, halftone, chromolithograph, collotype, and platinum)
label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear feet (papers)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1908-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The collection was donated by Paul. R. Greenhall in 2010. Greehhall had received the collection through his mother and grandmother. In the early 1920s Mura Bayly gave the items in this collection along with other artifacts to her friend Alice Lydia Jones (grandmother of donor Paul Greenhall).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2010-22
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Detailed inventory of photographs available in the repository or on request.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection is comprised of papers and photographs relating to Mura Bayly's travels in Indonesia and the Pacific islands. Photographs including prints and lantern slides document daily life, arts, architecture, ceremonies, and various events of Javanese, Fijian, Samoan, Maori, and other people. Some photographs were made by professional photographers, including O. Kurkdjian studio, Carli Studio, Josiah Martin, and other photographers in the region. Bayly's papers include handwritten notes for her illustrated lectures, a typed manuscript for a story titled "Peter goes to Java," a journal kept during her time in Java, and an autograph album containing signatures and seals acquired during her travels.