Accession#:
1999-133
Title:
Memorial on the Beach
Date:
Feb. 18, 1995
Catalog Date:
02/03/2007
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Classification:
People
Local Groups
Local Groups
Collection:
SBHS Photo Collection
Copyright:
SBHS
Description:
This color photograph (taken from above) shows two men and a woman crouched on the sand at the commencement of a surfer's funeral. They are in wet suits and are preparing little bags of ashes of the deceased to be scattered in the ocean by the participating surfers . Standing around the three and watching are two women in a semi-embrace, another young man in a wet suit, and a white-haired minister in blue robes. The three young men all have shaved heads in honor of the deceased, and two have leis around their necks. See notes.
Event:
Surfer Memorial Ceremony
Film Size:
35 mm
Frame #:
9
Medium:
Photographic Paper
Negative #:
90
Notes:
On February 18, 1995 four local young men, Matthew Perry, Eli Kempf, James Duncan nd Ian Duncan, all killed in an auto accident were given a memorial service on the beach. As they were members of the surfing community it was the traditional Surfer Ceremony consisting of all the participating surfers gathering on their boards in a circle offshore and scattering the ashes of the deceased along with leis and loose flowers in the center and then raising their arms and their voices in farewell. In Keeping with the magnitude of the tradgedy many of the companions of the young men shaved their heads in tribute.
Object ID:
1999-133-01
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Orig/copy:
Original
People:
Perry, Mathew
Kempf, John Eli
Duncan, James
Duncan,Ian
Kempf, John Eli
Duncan, James
Duncan,Ian
Place:
Stinson Beach
Print Size:
4" x 6"
Source:
Jones, Mary
Subjects:
People-Local Groups
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