IDNO

P.799.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “View from verandah of Mission house, Mer.”

View from the verandah of the Mission house, where the Expedition team stayed, over thick scrub and coconut trees on the side of a hill towards the sea. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999, updated JD 25/5/2011]

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

1898

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionTorres Strait Island Expedition

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Quarterplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Haddon, Rivers, Ray and Seligman stayed at the dilapidated missionary house formerly belonging to the LMS missionary Savage, which Haddon had stayed in in 1888 (1898: 62). [Jude Philp 17/3/1999]

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) captioned: “16. Vegetation at Mer." [JD 08/09/2021]