IDNO

LS.26741.WHI

Description

On catalogue card: "N.W. Amazon. 175.57.
Okaina dancing."

Large group of Okaina men dancing in row with interlinked arms. Smaller group of women with children standing in front of men. Setting is open space with trees in background. [TC 09/06/1999]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon

Cultural Affliation

South American Indian; Witotoan; Okaina [Ocaina; Akaina; Dukaiya; Añuja; Okaine; Ibo’tsa; Dukaya]

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 published in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 as Pl. XLVIII with the caption "Okaina Dance". [TC 01/06/1999]

Reproduced in Paternoster, G. S., 1913 opposite page 192, with the caption "The Huitoto Dance.-I. (This ceremony is now held annually during the few weeks during which the rubber trees are resting.)". [TC 01/06/1999]

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36135, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse as "Dukaiya (Okaina)."
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]

Related Image: N.26870.WHI and N.26871.WHI also depict a small structure made of ?poles and ?rope in the background at the right, as well as an extra figure to the right. The structure has been blanked out within the image in N.26872.WHI, P.9297.ACH1, LS.26741.WHI and the published version. [TC 01/06/1999]

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] [TC 01/06/1999]