IDNO
Doc.277
Description
Pen, pencil, and ink drawing drawn by A.C. Haddon while on the Torres Strait Expedition (1898). A photograph of an almost identical drawing, probably from Haddon's 1898 journal (p. 255), is in the Photographic Collection - P.790.ACH1. Drawing of a fenced open rectangular structure (kwod) with two openings; on some fence posts hand trumpet (bu) shells. In two parallel lines in the centre of the kwod, in line with the two openings, are shells, skulls and, at the top of one line a crocodile and at the top of the other, a hammer-head shark. To the left is another structure which has two long thatch roofs inside it. See also Doc. 147 and Doc. 276.
Place
Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait,Yam Island
Source
Date
1898
Keywords
Drawing; Magic and Religion; Ceremony
Author
Haddon, Alfred Cort
Events
Description (CMS Description)
Pen, pencil, and ink drawing drawn by A.C.Haddon while on the Torres Strait Expedition (1898). A photograph of an almost identical drawing, probably from Haddon's 1898 journal (p. 255), is in the Photographic Collection - P.790.ACH1. Drawing of a fenced open rectangular structure (kwod) with two openings; on some fence posts hand trumpet (bu) shells. In two parallel lines in the centre of the kwod, in line with the two openings, are shells, skulls and, at the top of one line a crocodile and at the top of the other, a hammer-head shark. To the left is another structure which has two long thatch rooves inside it. See also Doc. 147 and Doc. 276.
04/02/2011
Created by: maa on 04/02/2011
FM:254952
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