IDNO

P.9301.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Two slaves from Putomayo river, Up. Amazon, Colombia. Engaged in rubber industry and treated with great cruelty. Resemble the Malays in colour, features, height and build. One shows Mongolian cast of the eye.”

Half-length portrait of a man, Ricudo, and boy, Omarido, from Putumayo River, and brought to England by Sir Roger Casement. The two face the camera, are bare-chested, and stand in front of a plain studio backdrop. [JD 7/1/2011]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; Putumayo River [Putomayo River]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Omarido; Ricudo

Photographer

Thomson, John

Collector / Expedition

Casement, Roger (Sir) [Photo Commissioner?]

Date

circa 1911

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Named Person: The names of the man and boy were identified by Lesley Wylie, University of Essex, 20/2/2007.

Publication: Wylie, Lesley, ‘“Rare Models”:  Roger Casement, the Amazon, and the Ethnographic Picturesque’, Irish Studies Review, 18.3 (2010), 315-330. [See http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2010/12/lost-images-of-human-exhibits-in.html, JD 7/1/2011]

Publication: The Putumayo, By W. E. Hardenburg; ed. and with an introduction by C. Reginald Enock ... together with extracts from the report of Sir Roger Casement confirming the occurrences. With 16 illustrations and a map.
Main author: Hardenburg, Walter Ernest, 1886-
Other Entries: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970, ed.; and Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916.
Published: London [etc.] T.F. Unwin [1912]
Description: 347, [1] p. 16 pl. (incl. front.) fold. map. 23 cm.
Subjects: Peruvian Amazon company (Limited); Rubber industry and trade--Peru; Peru--Description and travel; Putumayo River.
Copy held at the UL, class mark 675:7.c.90.31. [JD 7/1/2011]