IDNO

LS.79694.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mer, Murray Is.
The last round house on Mer." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.807.ACH1: "Round house, Mer."

A thatch beehive house belonging to Boa of Ulag on a cleared sandy area. A mat is hanging in the sun on the side of the house. Part of another house can be seen on the left. Boa had moved to Darnley by 1898. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999, updated JD 25/5/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer [Murray Island]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Boa of Ulag

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Date

1898

Collection Name

?Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.79666. to LS.79723. were found in the wooden slide box, formerly numbered batch 42, now renumbered C402/.

LS.79693. to LS.79696. were found in the card slide box now numbered C402/5/.

Place: This house belonged to Boa of Ulag who had moved to Darnley by 1898. (Wilkin 1898 notebook). [Jude Philp 17/3/1999]

Publication: Printed in the Reports IV: Plate XX fig.3 with the caption "Round house, Ulag, Mer (p.101)". Wilkin studied house construction in Torres Strait but died before the Reports were printed, his work was posthumously edited by Haddon and appears in Volume IV. [Jude Philp 17/3/1999]