IDNO

P.807.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Round house, Mer.”

A thatch beehive house belonging to Boa of Ulag on a cleared sandy area. A mat is hanging in the sun on the side of the house. Part of another house can be seen on the left. Boa had moved to Darnley by 1898. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999, updated JD 25/5/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer; Ulag

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Boa of Ulag

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

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: This house belonged to Boa of Ulag who had moved to Darnley by 1898. (Wilkin 1898 notebook). [Jude Philp 17/3/1999]

Publication: Printed in the Reports IV: Plate XX fig.3 with the caption “Round house, Ulag, Mer (p.101)”. Wilkin studied house construction in Torres Strait but died before the Reports were printed, his work was posthumously edited by Haddon and appears in Volume IV. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999]

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) captioned: “17. The last round house at Ulag, Mer.
Vol. IV, pp. 101-105.
Photo taken in 1898 by A. Wilkin." [JD 08/09/2021]