IDNO

N.23140.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.881.ACH1: “Group at Dauar (S.H.R., A.C.H., Pasi, etc.).”

Picnic group in a sandy clearing bordered by bamboo fencing and trees. From right to left: Haddon, cross-legged wearing trousers, shirt and boots; Pasi standing with a hand on Haddon and Ray’s shoulder wearing shirt, trousers and hat; Ray kneeling with trousers, jacket, pith helmet. Two men standing one shirtless with a hat, the other with calico. A woman kneeling wearing a missionary dress and hat in front of a display of food; a small boy squatting. [Jude Philp 17/5/1999]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer; Dauar Island

Cultural Affliation

Torres Strait Islander

Named Person

Alfred Haddon; Pasi; Sidney Ray;?Koriba; Mrs Canoe; Poi Pasi (squatting boy)

Photographer

Seligman, Charles Gabriel

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

14 May 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 C49/17/ by the cataloguer. The envelope was kept in box marked C49/ 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: Many of the photographs with “C.U. Anth. Ex. T. Sts.” on the catalogue card appear in the Reports for the Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 to 1899, published 1901 to 1935.

Publication: Image published in Herle and Philp 1998a, p.9.

Related Archive: Haddon recorded this photograph in his journal: “In the afternoon we [Haddon, Ray, Seligman] partook of native refreshmant - a woman “Mrs Canoe” had laid out some banana leaves on the sand in an enclosure round a house on which she had placed 4 heaps of coconut chips (shavings of the kernal) + a central heap of warm roasted green bananas - + 4 green coconuts were prepared for drinking from - I enclose a photo of this al fresco repast” (Haddon 1898: 70).

Named Person: There are many photographs of Pasi in the collection. He was a friend and informant to Haddon on both Expeditions. [Jude Philp, 2/1998 - 3/2000]

Named Person: The man standing shirtsless may be Canoe, see also P.821.ACH1 [Jude Philp, 2/1998 - 3/2000]

CUMAA Exhibition: A reproduction of this image was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Fieldwork and Scholarship with the descriptive label:
“Alfred Haddon and Sydney Ray with Pasi and family on a beach at Dauar. Haddon first met Pasi in 1888 and renewed their friendship when he returned as leader of the 1898 Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait. Photographs played an important role in the interaction between the Expedition members and Islanders: lantern-slide shows were popular local entertainment, photographs were given as gifts to assistants and sometimes taken at Islanders’ request.” [Sudeshna Guha 27/11/02]

MAA Exhibition: This photograph was included in the Fieldwork & Collecting text panel for the 'Introduction Case', in the Maudslay Gallery during its re-display, May 2012, with the caption:
"Haddon and Ray having a picnic with Pasi and extended family on Dauar., Torres Strait. Pasi, Haddon’s main assistant and friend, stands between Haddon and Ray touching their shoulders. Dadi sits in front of her husband, Canoe, and has laid out coconut chips, roasted bananas and green coconuts on banana leaves.
Photograph by Charles Seligman, May 1898. MAA N.23140.ACH2." [JD 9/21/2013]

Publication: Image published in 'Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888–89, 1898–99', Edited by Anita Herle and Jude Philp (Sydney University Press), Fig 4.9, and captioned: "Haddon seated on left with (l-r) Pasi, Ray, probably Koriba, Mrs Canoe, unknown youth, and Poi Pasi (squatting) having a picnic on the beach. Photo probably by Seligmann, Dauar, 14 May. MAA N.23140." [JD 10/03/2020]