IDNO

P.9294.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Boro dancing”.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.26727.WHI: "N.W. Amazon. 175.35.
Boro girls dancing."

View of a large group of Boro women and adolescent girls dancing in two rows.
Details of the women and girls' figures have been drawn in to provide definition, and the top and bottom of the image has been masked out. [TC 01/06/1999, updated JD 09/10/2019]

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. XLV with the caption “Boro dancing”. [TC 09/06/1999]

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36166, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse as "Boro dancing (enlargement)."
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]