IDNO

P.963.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Stone of Markep, a ‘lu babat’, Mer.”

View of banana trees and young palms, bottom centre is a rectangular shaped rock sticking up. [Jude Philp 27/5/1999, description from record N.23222.ACH2, JD 03/10/2018]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer; Dauar Island

Cultural Affliation

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

Context: The stone probably relates to the story of Markep and Sarkep and the stones at Dauar (VI: 56) see also P.964.ACH1. [Jude Philp 27/5/1999, description from record N.23222.ACH2, JD 03/10/2018]

Bibliographical Reference: Haddon notes in Reports Vol. 1, pp.142-143, "With regard to the ziai neur (vi, p. 56; pi. V, fig. 3) at Waperered, Bruce (MS.) says she has nothing to do with the setting of the sun as she does not exactly face to the west, but she is supposed to influence the westerly winds. No definite information could be obtained about her. Though near the enau zogo ged she was not connected with the zogo. The explanation of her being close by is that she was one of the ti neur taken by Markep and Sarkep to their home at Waperered. There were two koko and two ti girls. The zogo le (VI, p. 203) did not anoint the image, or put red paint on it, they merely cleared the weeds away from around it ; she was there only to look after the zogo. He does not add anything to what he said about the two ziai neur in Eid's garden at Damud, or Damid (vi, p. 235; fig. 47). The stone effigies of Markep and Sarkep are also close to the enau zogo ged." [JD 03/10/2018]