IDNO

P.1841.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Houses, Ziria.” [typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Yule Island; Ziria [British New Guinea; Tsiria]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

?7 July 1898

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionTorres Strait Island Expedition

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Many of the photographs with this information in the top right hand corner appear in the Reports for the Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 to 1899, published 1901 to 1935.

Related Archive: Haddon writes in his 1898 journal: “Thursday, July 6th [sic 7th] ...
"Wilkin was a little upset so he did little else than walk to the village of Tsiria which he photographed.” (p.158)
"Monday, July 11. Had another enjoyable lazy day chatted with natives – did some writing, etc. in morning. Soon after the midday meal Ray and Wilkin and Brother Alexis returned – they visited the villages of Pinapaka, Mohu and Babaki. For the next two days we pottered about – visited the village of Tsiria where we took some measurements and did some ‘curios’ buying, chiefly gourds. We took the phonograph Thursday for the sisters who live in the village and we had one rehearsal in the school-room to an excited audience and another in the dubu or clubhouse in the village. (p.167) [JD 12/03/2020]