IDNO

LS.26700.WHI

Description

On catalogue card: "N.W. Amazon. 175.5.
View on an affluent of the Kakuinari R."

View of forest on banks of an affluent of the Kahuinari River. [TC 09/06/1999]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; Kahuinari River; Kakuinari River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Whiffen, Thomas William

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1908 - 1909

Collection Name

Whiffen CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Whiffen, Nöel H.

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Reproduced in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 as Pl. IV with the caption "View on affluent of the Kahuinari River".

See P.9255.ACH1 record for notes on Whiffen’s attitude to his forest and river environment.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36151, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse with: "Affluent of Kahuinari River."
Photocopies of Whiffen prints at the RAI are in the UCMAA archive, reference W19/1/3. See Whiffen Collection record for further details on RAI collection. [TC 09/06/1999, updated JD 02/10/2019]

Source: In MAA Correspondence Box 1934 is a letter from Noel Whiffen donating his "brother's collection of lantern slides" to the museum, on behalf of the Whiffen family. Louis Clarke replied. The gift is also noted in the annual report for that year in the list of accessions (UCMAA 1934: 3), which mentions that "the collection of lantern slides has also been increased by gifts from ... Mr N. H. Whiffen ... "
For full details see Whiffen Collection record. [TC 09/06/1999, updated, JD 02/10/2019]