IDNO

P.100399.WHI

Description

Captain Whiffen with a small group of South American Indian men, paddling a canoe on the Kahuinari River at “sunrise”. Whiffen is seated at the stern, with a Union Jack flag.

The white area seen on this image shows where the glass negative is masked with black paper to create a vignette.

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; Kahuinari River

Cultural Affliation

English; British; European; South American Indian

Named Person

Thomas William Whiffen

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

1908 - 1909

Collection Name

Whiffen Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print has been made by Faculty photographer [of arch and anth] Gwil Owen, from the glass negative, October 2003.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36186, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse as “Sunrise in the Kahuinari. Self."
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]

The men depicted are probably some of Whiffen’s “carriers”, as described in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 (pp. 2-4). He explains that at the beginning of his expedition he “collected eight Indian carriers, two half-castes, and eight “rationales”, or semi-civilised Indians, armed with Winchesters, together with three Indian women, wives of three of the rationales” (ibid: 3).

See LS.26709.WHI record for notes about canoes.

See also record for LS.26710.WHI for additional sources of information about this image.