IDNO

LS.109250.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Tutu
Man, full length, "Maino",
dressed for dance." [manuscript in ink]

Portrait of Maino, the Mamoose of Tud and Yam, dressed in a dancing costume of headband, dibidibi (shell neck-ornament), crossed shoulder slings, kadig (woven forearm ornament), two woven upper arm ornaments with cowry shell decoration, densely beaded cumberbund, long shorts, and leg and ankle ornaments. He carries a gabagaba (stone club) over his shoulder. [Jude Philp 2/3/1999, updated JD 17/5/2011, description from record N.22891.ACH2, JD 10/02/2020]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Tudu [Tutu]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Maino

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Torres Strait, 1888 - 1889]

Date

1888

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Haddon writes of his first visit to Maino’s village on Tud on the 14th August 1888, "After passing the north of the lagoon we came to the King’s village. After a little persuasion we induced them to get up a koppa-koppa or native dance for us. Being my first sight of one I was naturally much interest but there were too few people & it was too hurriedly arranged for it to be very successful. ..." (1888, p.10)
It more likely that HAddon took this series of portraits between 28 - 30th October, when he writes; "Maino was very pleased to see me & I him & I spent the greater part of the three days I was there with him at his camp. ...
Maino got up the best dance he could for me on Monday evening. My previous descriptions will give you a significant idea of this one - although most of the figures I do not remember having seen before. " (1888, pp.64, 66) [JD 17/5/2011, from record N.22891.ACH2 ID 1/3/2012]

Named Person: Maino was a friend and informant to Haddon on both Expeditions and his 1914 trip. He first met him in 1888 when Hugh Milman, Acting Government Resident, took Haddon with him on his tour of the region. Milman and Maino organised a dance for Haddon’s benefit and many similar ornaments to those worn here are now in the British Museum. Maino then toured with Haddon and Millman around Torres Strait and to PNG. (1888: 9-12 [Aug. 14]; 63-66 [Oct 26-30] . [Jude Philp, 2/1998 - 3/2000, from record N.22891.ACH2 ID 1/3/2012]

Publication: A drawing of this image by Haddon’s brother, Trevor, was reproduced in Haddon 1893: Plate XI, fig. 3 [JD 2/10/2010, from record N.22891.ACH2 ID 1/3/2012]

Publication: Image reproduced in Reports IV: Plate V, fig. 10, captioned, "Maino of Tutu dressed for a war-dance (pp.35, 52, 55, 56, 59)." [JD 17/5/2011, from record N.22891.ACH2 ID 1/3/2012]