IDNO

P.809.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Decoration on top of above house at Mer.”

Close-up of a ‘figure’ on a thatch roof. The figure is made of thatch, rope and has a bailer shell on the top. The house is shown in N.23077.ACH2. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999, updated JD 25/7/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

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

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: This image printed in Reports IV: Plate XII: 3 with the caption “Finial of a Mirian [sic] house, Mer (pp. 101, 109).[Jude Philp 17/3/1999]

Bibliographical Reference: Wilkin studied house construction in Torres Strait but died before the Reports were printed, his work was postumously edited by Haddon and appears in Volume IV.[Jude Philp 17/3/1999]