IDNO

P.100400.WHI

Description

Captain Whiffen and a Trinidadian “bearer” standing outdoors. Both are wearing similar “European” style clothing. Whiffen is wearing a hat, smoking a pipe, holding a stick and has a pistol holster and a knife in his belt. The other man is holding a ?knife and his clothing is ragged. [ [TC 09/06/1999]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon

Cultural Affliation

English; British; European; Trinidadian; West Indian Peoples

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 36161, and annotated by Whiffen in pencil on the reverse with "Self and Bearer (Trinidadian)."
Photocopies of Whiffen prints at the RAI are held 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 man on the right is one 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 also record for LS.26715.WHI for additional sources of information about this image.