IDNO

P.983.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “A fish shrine, Mer.”

View of Sorkar, a fish shrine, relating to tup or sardine fishing, on the shore line of Mer at low tide. The larger curved stone is Sorkar, and the flat rock leaning against it is an anchor thrown down by Malu’s canoes. In the background is a reef bed and in the distance the islands of Waier and Dauar. [Jude Philp 1/6/1999, updated JD 27/5/2011]

Physical Condition: Photograph printed from glass negative cracked from top to bottom of the left third.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort

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

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