IDNO

P.9257.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Bank of main Amazon stream in vicinity of Japura river”

View from river towards forest on bank.

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; near Japura River (Caqueta River); Amazon River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Whiffen, Thomas William

Collector / Expedition

Date

1908 - 1909

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionWhiffen Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Reproduced in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 as Pl. III with the caption “Bank of main Amazon stream in the vicinity of the mouth of the Japura River”.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36203, was in an envelope, together with photographs of similar scenes, and annotated by Whiffen’s as “Typical photographs of the Upper Amazon Issa & Japura Rivers”.
Photocopies of Whiffen prints at the RAI are in the UCMAA archive, reference W19/1/3. See Whiffen Collection record for further details on RAI collection. [TC 09/06/1999, updated JD 02/10/2019]

See P.9255.ACH1 record for notes on Whiffen’s attitude to his forest and river environment.

See also similar description and additional information on catalogue card for lantern slide.