IDNO

P.9371.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe with masts, Mabuiag.” [typed text, circa 1935]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138499.TC1: E. Torres Sts. XXXV.6. E. Torres Sts. 38.6.
Mer.
Canoe - double outrigger.
2 booms - stick attachment
2 mast in European style.

View from end on of a beached double-outrigger canoe with two masts and painted decoration on the hull. Two men are aboard and a third man is standing by the stern of 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