IDNO

P.969.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Gizu’s rain charm, Mer.”

A number of croton and other leaves form a ring on the ground, at the centre is earth, around the edge are large clam shells. At the top left and top right corners are plaited coconut palm structures. [Jude Philp 8/3/1999]

The right top and bottom corner is white.

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Gasu (Gizu); Dugena

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

August 1898

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionTorres Strait Island Expedition

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Quarterplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Haddon refers to the man as Gasu, rather than Gizu. Haddon writes of this rain charm called dugena in the Reports VI: 194-5.

Related Image: The object was bought by Haddon and is in the UCMAA collection Z.9658. See also P.968.ACH1; P.970.ACH1;