IDNO

P.973.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Irado and her basket, Mer.”

At the edge of a road is an upright rectangular stone, named ‘Irado’ and next to her, her basket in the form of a smaller round stone with an indent. Beside them a young palm tree and in the background a grassy plain. [Jude Philp 28/5/1999, updated JD 7/5/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer; Kop

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Irado

Photographer

None

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

Publication: Printed in Reports VI: IV fig. 1 captioned “Irado and her basket (pp.50-52)”. Irado is a woman featured in the story of the Nam zogo. “When she arrived at Kop, she settled down there and eventually turned herself into the stone that stands behind that village, the stone beside the upright one is her basket” (VI: 52) which was used for gardening. [Jude Philp 28/5/1999]