IDNO

P.9364.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe at Mabuiag.” [typed text, circa 1935]
“Mille [semi-legible] outrigger” [manuscript in pencil].

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138497.TC1: W. Torres Sts. 38.4.
Canoe, at Mabuiag
2 booms, stick attachment, decorated in the old style.

A beached canoe, named ‘Adi’, with double outrigger at Mabuiag. A sea bay is in the background. [JD 23/5/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag [Mabuyag]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

1898

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionTorres Strait Island Expedition

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Report IV, Plate XXV, Fig. 2, with the following caption:
“Canoe (named ‘Adi’) with double outrigger, Mabuiag (pp.205, 207-210, 215, 216).” [JD 6/4/2011]

MAA Exhibition: Same image paired with P.9364.ACH1 included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) and captioned: “26. Bow of a Mabuiag canoe.
The hull is carved in the old characteristic manner. A split bamboo is laid over the seam between the hull and the washstrake; above the washstrake is a triangular fore washboard in front of which is the figurehead (over Case 8). The fore end of the dugout is ornamented with Ovulum shells and a fringe, above which is a V-shaped errection ornamented with cowry shells.
Vol. IV, pp. 213-215.
27. General view of the same canoe showing details previously mentioned, the ornamented stern post and erect carved gozed staves (over Case 8).
Vol. IV, pp. 215-217.
Photo. taken 1898 by A. Wilkin." [JD 08/09/2021]