IDNO

P.9369.ACH1

Description

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

A model of a Mabuiag canoe, one of three “made merely for the purpose of getting the names of the ropes, etc.” [Haddon's annotation, JD 10/4/2011]

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

Bibliographical Reference: Haddon writes of Mabuiag in Haddon, Alfred Cort; 1932. ‘The Head-Hunters: Black, White, and Brown’ (London: Watts), p.74 with the following information:
“MABUIAG is a larger island than Murray, and consists of several hills three or four hundred feet in height, some are about five hundred feet high. ...
Compared with the Murray Islanders, the people of Mabuiag are much better off so far as clothes and European commodities are concerned; but, as already stated, the island is much less fertile-indeed, little native food is now grown, barely enough for daily use.
Mabuiag has been for a longer time, and also far more thoroughly, under the influence of the white man than has the Murray Islands. Consequently the social and economic conditions have been more modified, and one immediately perceives that the people are more civilised, and it does not take long to find out that they are more intelligent as a whole. The men do more fishing, and are altogether more industrious than are the Murray Islanders”. [Jocelyne Dudding 17/9/2008]