IDNO

P.932.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Fish weirs, Mer.”

View from a hill, looking down to a path and beyond this to the sea. From the shore-line the border of a stone fish-trap juts out encircling the reef, eventually meeting with the line of another trap. [Jude Philp 25/5/1999, from record N.23191.ACH1]

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

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) captioned: “22. Fish weirs. Mer.
Vol. IV, p.158.
Photo. taken 1898 by A. Wilkin." [JD 08/09/2021]