IDNO

P.970.ACH1

Description

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

The package containing the doiom (rain stone) and lukup at the base of Gasu’s rain shrine at Lewag. The doiom is contained within croton and other leaves grouped in an arc. At the bottom right is a stone and a giant clam shell, and behind are roughly plaited ‘mats’ suspended upright. [Jude Philp 278/5/1999, updated JD 26/5/2011]

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

Publication: Haddon writes of this rain charm called dugena in the Reports VI: 194-5. The image is published in Reports VI, Plate IX, fig. 7 with the title “Package containing doiom and kukup (p.198)”.

Related Image: The object was bought by Haddon and is in the UCMAA collection See also P.968.ACH1; P.969.ACH1