IDNO

P.9613.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoes at Botol Tobago, South of Formosa, 1905. (These canoes strongly resemble the Mon of the Solomon Is. [Islands] in form, but whether they do in construction is not known.)”

Place

E Asia; Taiwan; Lan-yu Island [Formosa; Botol Tobago]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

1905

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

de Rautenfeld, Paul

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “America; Central America; West Indies; Tobago Island; Botol Tobago”, but the card states that the photograph is from Botol Tobago, Formosa, which is the historic name for Lan-yu Island (or Orchid Island), Taiwan. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 8/1/2009]

Place: Huo-Shao Island is an old historical Chinese name for Lan-yu Island. Botol Tobago is an historical European name for Lan-yu Island. [Information provided by Chia-yu Hu, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, JD 7/7/2010]

Collector: Rautenfeld’s collection in addition to being in Cambridge are located within Basel and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA).

Source: Dr. Paul Baron de Rautenfeld (1893-1957), while Customs Inspector in China for Switzerland visited New Guinea initially in 1923. After retiring he visited the island twice in 1925 and 1929. During his second trip in 1925, he visited the Papuan Gulf and took the photographs that form part of the Cambridge Museum’s holdings.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 8/1/2009]