IDNO

P.798.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Landing at Murray.”

Seven people on a canoe with outrigger and two masts about to land at Mer. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999, updated JD 25/5/2011]

Physical Condition: Out of focus image. [JP 17/3/1999]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

?6 May 1898

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionTorres Strait Island Expedition

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Quarterplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Date: Haddon, Seligman landed first and then sent out the dingey for Rivers and Ray. This photography may depict this moment on Mer on 6 May, (1898 p.62); Myers, McDougall and Wilkin arrived separately. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999]