IDNO

D.60682.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138494.TC1: E. Torres Sts. XXXV.I. E. Torres Sts. 38.1.
Old type of canoe, double outrigger
preparing for a voyage.
putting in coco-nuts - pouring water from a bamboo receptacle into a coco-nut water vessel fish-scoop (were) in foreground. Tabu (gelar) posts to right.

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

H.S. Melville [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

circa 1844

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Templeton Crocker, Charles

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found inside the envelope now numbered C290/1/9/. This envelope was inside drawer 1 now numbered C290/1/, or the first drawer of the entire brown cabinet, which was formerly numbered as batch 154 and now numbered C290/.

Mounted on paper.