IDNO

P.9297.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Okaina dance”.

A large group of Okaina men dancing in a semicircle with interlinked arms. A smaller group of women with children are standing in front of men. The setting is an open space with trees in background. [TC 01/06/1999]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon

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: Image published in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 as Pl. XLVII with the caption “Okaina Dance”.

Reproduced in Paternoster, G. S., 1913 opposite page 192, with the caption “The Huitoto Dance.-I. (This ceremony is now held annually during the few weeks during which the rubber trees are resting.)”.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36135, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse as "Dukaiya (Okaina)."
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]

N.26870.WHI and N.26871.WHI also depict a small structure made of ?poles and ?rope in the background at the right, as well as an extra figure to the right. The structure has been blanked out within the image in N.26872.WHI, P.9297.ACH1, LS.26741.WHI and the published version.