IDNO

LS.26728.WHI

Description

On catalogue card: "N.W. Amazon. 175.39.
Karahone child."

Young Karahone boy standing outdoors, wearing necklace of animal-teeth and ?beads. Rural setting. [TC 09/06/1999]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon

Cultural Affliation

South American Indian; ?Witotoan; Karahone [Carihona; Carijona; Karihona; Karijona; Hianakoto; Umawa]

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: Image reproduced in Whiffen, T. W. 1915 as Pl. XXXVIII with the caption "Karahone child".

Perhaps the boy depicted is the one mentioned by Whiffen, who tells that at Chorrerra, near the beginning of his expedition, "by arrangement with an Andoke chief, I managed to get a young Karahone lad, a slave who had been captured some years previously by the Andoke and who said he would take me to his own people across the great river" (Whiffen, T. W., 1915: 5).

See P.9269.ACH1 record for notes on Whiffen’s use of physical anthropology.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36128, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse with "Karahone - too dark for normal type."
Photocopies of Whiffen prints at the RAI are in the MAA 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]