IDNO

P.79542.ACH2

Description

View of thatch houses at Ziria. [JD 12/03/2020]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Yule Island; Ziria [British New Guinea; Tsiria]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

?7 July 1898; ?12 - 13 July 1898

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.79542.ACH2 and P.79543.ACH2 were pasted to a single page.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Oceania; Melanesia; New Guinea”, but matching images within the album to the duplicate prints and negatives (for example see P.1831.ACH1 and P.1985.ACH1) shows that the photographs are from A.C. Haddon’s field work in the then British New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea) during the Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 21/11/2009]

Collector: / Expedition: / Date: / Source: This album was previously recorded as possibly been collected and sourced from “?Haddon, Alfred Cort”, but matching images within the album to the duplicate prints and negatives (for example see P.1831.ACH1 and P.1985.ACH1) shows that the photographs are from A.C. Haddon’s Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899 (BNG). The Collector and Source field have been amended accordingly. [JD 21/11/2009]

Related Archive: Haddon writes in his 1898 journal: “Thursday, July 6th [sic 7th] ...
"Wilkin was a little upset so he did little else than walk to the village of Tsiria which he photographed.” (p.158)
"Monday, July 11. Had another enjoyable lazy day chatted with natives – did some writing, etc. in morning. Soon after the midday meal Ray and Wilkin and Brother Alexis returned – they visited the villages of Pinapaka, Mohu and Babaki. For the next two days we pottered about – visited the village of Tsiria where we took some measurements and did some ‘curios’ buying, chiefly gourds. We took the phonograph Thursday for the sisters who live in the village and we had one rehearsal in the school-room to an excited audience and another in the dubu or clubhouse in the village. (p.167) [JD 12/03/2020]