1108700 Group of ancient houses with sculptured door-posts, Orongo, Easter Island, December 1886 (sepia photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art; (add.info.: NEG. #:81-2889 (see also MH 32,645) This photograph was taken during the U.S.S. Mohican\'s visit to Easter Island from Dec. 18 to 31, 1886. Suggested photographers are William Edwin Safford & William J. Thomson, crew members on the Mohican. An original print of this photo appears in Safford\'s album of the voyage (Acc. #76-26). Thomson\'s donation (USNM Ace. #20,511I; Cat. #129,839) of photos from the 1886 visit (some of which duplicate those in Safford\'s album) does not include this image but he does publish it in "Te Pito Te Henua or Easter Island," USINM-AR 1889, plate XXI. (10942-X).); American, out of copyright.