IDNO

LS.109020.TC1

Description

On catalogue card: "Men: N. Queensland.
3 men front view"

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.6.ACH1: "3 Cape York Australians on Mabuiag (full face)."

Frontal half-length portrait of three men. The men have cicatrisation on the chest and abdomen. They are wearing cotton? wrap-around skirts. The man on the left has an earring on his left ear. The landscape in the background consists of hills and shrubbery. [WV 6/3/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag Island; Cape York

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

1898

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Haddon writes of Mabuiag in Haddon, Alfred Cort; 1932. ‘The Head-Hunters: Black, White, and Brown’ (London: Watts), pp.74 with the following information:
"MABUIAG is a larger island than Murray, and consists of several hills three or four hundred feet in height, some are about five hundred feet high. ...
Compared with the Murray Islanders, the people of Mabuiag are much better off so far as clothes and European commodities are concerned; but, as already stated, the island is much less fertile-indeed, little native food is now grown, barely enough for daily use.
Mabuiag has been for a longer time, and also far more thoroughly, under the influence of the white man than has the Murray Islands. Consequently the social and economic conditions have been more modified, and one immediately perceives that the people are more civilised, and it does not take long to find out that they are more intelligent as a whole. The men do more fishing, and are altogether more industrious than are the Murray Islanders". [Jocelyne Dudding 17/9/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 6/3/2009]