IDNO

P.9285.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Boro woman carrying child”.

Full-length profile view of a Boro woman standing at a Muenane dance. The woman is wearing leg ligatures and a necklace made of white beads. She is carrying a child on her back in a sling made of a piece of ?bark-cloth, worn over her head and hanging down her back.

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon

Cultural Affliation

South American Indian; Witotoan; Boro [Bora; Meamuyna; Meamuina; Miraña; Miranya; Mirane; Miranha; Miragua; Miraño; Mirania]

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. XXXIX with the caption “Boro women carrying children”.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36180, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse as “Boro. Method of carrying child."
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]

This image is specifically referred to by Whiffen, who points out that "the number [of beads] worn by a Boro woman may be judged from the illustration, where the white appendage round the woman's neck is made simply by stringing a few pounds of white beads together" (Whiffen, T. W., 1915: 80).

See P.9283.WHI record for notes on child-carrying slings.

See N.26852.WHI and N.26853.WHI records for information about the image of a Muenane dance event of which LS.26722.WHI is a detail.

LS.26722.WHI and LS.26724.WHI to LS.26725.WHI depict similar slings in use.

See also LS.26723.WHI for additional sources of information about this image.