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Description: | -William Ellis gave some important ethnological material to the museum collected during his work as a missionary. During the 1850's and 60's he took a series of glass plate negatives of scenes in Madagascar, which are now believed to be the earliest photographic images known of the country.;William Stanger, who was born at Tydd Gote, near Wisbech, was a medical doctor who joined the ill-fated Niger Expedition of 1841exloring the Niger River. He later went on to become Surveyor General of Natal. The bulk of his collection was purchased for the museum in 1856 and includes numerous items from both Niger and Natal.;William Ellis was a missionary in the South Seas and the Sandwich Islands from 1816 t0 1825, and later in Madagascar. Among the items from his collections still surviving today are several lengths of bark cloth from Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Museum Square
Wisbech Cambridgeshire United Kingdom,
PE13 1ES | FAX: | 01945 589050 | Telephone: | 01945 583817 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6435 | Go to resource |
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