IDNO

LS.26761.WHI

Description

On catalogue card: "N.W. Amazon. 175.80.
(Tribe not identified)
2 women, wearing ligatures."

Full-length portrait of two Witoto women. Both women are wearing leg and ankle ligatures, and one is wearing ear-ornaments.
The image has been retouched around the edges of the figures on the emulsion side. The remainder of the image has been masked with black paper on the non-emulsion side, leaving only the figures visible.
Just visible on the reverse of the duplicate negative, N.26795.WHI, is part of a two-storey, open-sided, wooden European-style building in background, possibly part of a rubber-station belonging to the Peruvian Amazon Company. [TC 09/06/1999, updated JD 21/10/2019]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; Igara Parana River

Cultural Affliation

South American Indian; Witotoan; Witoto [Huitoto; Uitoto; Ouitoto; Fitita; Guitoto; Hitote; Huitata; Huito; Huitato; Huitota; Komiuvedu; Komiovedu; Murui-Muinane]

Named Person

Photographer

Robuchon, Eugenio

Collector / Expedition

Date

1905 - 1906

Collection Name

Whiffen CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Whiffen, Nöel H.

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Reproduced in Robuchon.E. 1907 opposite page 50, with the caption "Igaraparana - Dos huitotas afectas a la fotografia". The published version of the image includes a background depicting a section-view of a European building. The photograph was probably made on his 1905-1906 expedition in the region.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36184, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse as "by Robuchon. tribe and group unknown." The photograph was probably made during Robuchon’s 1905-1906 expedition.
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]

Place: The building depicted is similar to those in Whiffen, T. W., 1915, Pl.s I and II, which are captioned "Houses in the ‘Rubber Belt’ of the Issa Valley". Therefore, the setting is probably a Peruvian Amazon Company rubber-station and the building may be a house used by its employees. See the Whiffen Collection record for further details.

Related Image: N.26761.WHI depicts the whole image from which the figures in LS.264795.WHI are taken.

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]