IDNO

P.9261.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “House in “rubber belt”, Issa valley”.

View from river towards three “European” style buildings in the “rubber belt” of the Issa Valley. Two-storey “house” with open sides and thatched roof at centre. Section-view of similar building at left. Similar but much smaller building at right. Small boat moored at river shore.

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; near Putumayo River; Issa Valley [Iça River; Issa River]

Cultural Affliation

?European; ?Peruvian; Latin American; South American Peoples

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: Image reproduced in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 as Pl. II, with the caption “A house in the ‘Rubber Belt’ of the Issa Valley.” [JD 16/05/2022]

The buildings are probably part of a Peruvian Amazon Company rubber-station. See Whiffen Collection record for further details.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36159, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse with: “House in 'Rubber Belt', Issa Valley."
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]