IDNO

P.9370.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe with ['2' [inserted manuscript in pencil]] masts, Mabuiag.” [typed text, circa 1935]
“double outrigger... 1898.” [manuscript in pencil].

A beached double-outrigger canoe with two masts and painted decoration on the hull. Three men are either sitting in or standing behind the canoe. [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