IDNO

P.9365.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Bow of canoe at Mabuiag.” [typed text, circa 1935]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138498.TC1: W. Torres Sts. XXXV.5. W. Torres Sts. 38.5.
Mabuiag.
Bow of canoe ornamented in the old style.

Detail of the bow of a beached double-outrigger canoe, named ‘Adi’, showing its ornamentation. [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. 4, with the following caption:
“Bow of the canoe ‘Adi’ (pp.205, 28, 210, 213, 215).” [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]