IDNO

P.810.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Houses at Mer (Caesar’s).”

Two houses, noted as being Caesar’s (Sisa), nestled in front of the bush on the sand. One house is an unfinished structure and a man, possibly Caesar, stands in front. The one behind it is a completed thatch structure. Three children can be seen under some fence posts. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999, updated JD 25/7/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Caesar

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

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]