IDNO

N.23038.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.753.ACH1: “Colour wheel, outside, Mabuiag”
[note this card and card for P.754.ACH1 refer to numbers P.755.ACH1, P.756.ACH1 and vice versa. This should read “Visual acuity, Mabuiag”]

Ned Waria, the mamoose (headman) of Mabuiag and one of Haddon’s chief assistants, standing holding a board that was used to test for visual acuity towards the camera. In the background is the old L.M.S. mission house where the Expedition set up their ‘Anthropological Laboratory’ as well as living. The mission house is a lime and mortar thatched house encircled with a picket fence and with a hill behind it. [Jude Philp 15/3/1999, updated JD 22/5/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag [Mabuyag]

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Ned Waria

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

1898

Collection Name

Torres Strait Island ExpeditionHaddon Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Glass Negative Quarterplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This negative was kept in an envelope marked C48/61/ by the cataloguer. The envelope was kept in box marked C48/ by the cataloguer. The envelope is now re-housed in Neg. Env. Box 9 which is stored in Storage Box B in the Photo Archive room.

Place: The house is the old LMS mission house which the Expedition members used to stay and to keep their equipment stored. [Jude Philp 9/3/1998]

Bibliographical Reference: For more information on how Rivers, Myers, MacDougall and Seligman conducted their visual acuity tests see Reports II: 1903 Part 1: 1-47 [Jude Philp 9/3/1998]

Named Person: Waria became mamoose (chief) shortly after 1898 and was a friend and paid informant for the Expedition at Mabuiag (Reports V, p.123), he appear in many photographs and are referred to often in the Reports. [Jude Philp 15/3/1999]