IDNO

LS.109210.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia.
North Queensland.
North Queenslanders (men) dance.
(Cinematograph taken at Mer. A.C.H.)"

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.3.ACH1: "Dance of Cape York Australians on Murray Island, Torres Straits."

Group of five Cape York men performing a dance on a beach on Mer. The men are wearing calicos and the man on the right is holding a spear, which he is possibly using as a rhythm stick?. In the background there are palm trees, the sea and a canoe in the water. [WV 6/3/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer; Queensland; Cape York

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cinematographer]

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

September 1898

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in 'Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888–89, 1898–99', Edited by Anita Herle and Jude Philp (Sydney University Press), Fig 0.34, and captioned: "Men from Cape York dancing on the beach. Mer, Torres Strait, September 1898. Lantern slide of a frame from the cine film. MAA LS.109210." [JD 06/03/2020]