IDNO

N.23039.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.754.ACH1: “Colour wheel, outside, Mabuiag”
[note this card and card for P.753.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, holding a board on which is marked an E that is used to test visual acuity. He stands with his back towards the camera and faces another man, William Rivers, who stands some distance away pointing at a board he is holding on which are a number of E’s placed at various angles. The board rests against a high fence, beyond the fence are two thatched lime and mortar houses and coconut palms. [Jude Philp 9/3/1998, updated JD 21/4/2011]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Ned Waria; William Rivers

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 C48/62/ 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.

Publication: This image was printed in Reports II: 1903 Part 1: 21. [Jude Philp 9/3/1998]

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

Publication: This image was reproduced in Richards, G. (1998). ‘Getting a Result: the Expedition’s psychological research 1898-1913’, in Herle, A. & S. Rouse (eds). Cambridge and the Torres Strait : centenary essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. p. 143, figure 6.3. Captioned: “Rivers testing for visual acuity using Haken’s E. Mabuiag, 1898.” [Mark Elliott 26/5/2004]

Publication: This image was reproduce in Herle, A. & J. Philp (1998) Torres Strait Islanders: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. p. 29.
Captioned: “Rivers and Peter (of Mabuiag) demonstrating the visual acuity test using Haken’s E. Mabuiag, 1898.” [Mark Elliott 26/5/2004]

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]