IDNO

P.9258.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Affluent of Kahuinari river”.

View across river towards forest on bank.

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; near Kahuinari 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. IV with the caption “View on affluent of the Kahuinari River”.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36151, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse with: “Affluent of Kahuinari River."
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.

MAA Exhibition: A reproduction of this image was displayed in Collected Sights in the section The Americas with the descriptive label:
“A typical landscape view of the Kahuinari river in Columbia, taken by Thomas Whiffen during his fieldwork among the Witoto in 1908 and 1909. Whiffen’s collections were donated in 1934 to the Museum by his brother Noel.” [Alex Nadin 10/12/02]