IDNO

LS.109253.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mabuiag
"Waria", head & shoulders." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for record P.706.ACH1: "Waria, Mabuiag."

Half-length portrait of Ned Waria, the mamoose (headman) of Mabuiag, with his face turned slightly to the side, and his arms are crossed over his white dress shirt. [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, updated JD 2/11/2009, from record P.706.ACH1, ID 1/3/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Waria

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

1898 - 1899

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Named Person: Waria was ‘chief’ or mamoose of Mabuiag shortly after the 1898 Expedition. "Our indebtedness to our native helpers is obvious; but to Waria, the chief of Mabuiag, we owe much, as, in addition to what he has told us orally, he has sent a large quantity of manuscript, mainly of genealogies and folk-talkes, which he has written at his own initiative" (Reports V: 6) Waria worked particularly with Rivers on Genealogical information (Reports V: 122-152).
Haddon notes he was paid 10/- per week to assist in the work of the Expedition (1898: 229). [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.706.ACH1 ID 1/3/2012]

Publication: Image printed in Reports I: Plate IX, fig. 1. [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.706.ACH1 ID 1/3/2012]

Context: This type of photograph served the dual purpose of being a momento/studio portrait for the sitter and a record of the sitter for the physical anthropological and ethnographic work of the Expedition (Myers 1898). [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.706.ACH1 ID 1/3/2012]

CUMAA Exhibition: A reproduction of this image was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Networks and Exchange with the descriptive label:
"Portrait of Ned Waria, mamoose (headman) of Mabuiag Island. Waria was a valued assistant to the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait who continued to correspond with Haddon after the Expedition. Waria produced a manuscript of nearly 300 pages about Mabuiag which was translated and partially published in Vol. III of the Expedition’s Reports." [Sudeshna Guha 27/11/02, from record P.706.ACH1 ID 1/3/2012]

CUMAA Exhibition: ‘Torres Strait Islanders: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Exhibition’ at UCMAA, July 1998 to December 2000, with following label "Photograph. Portrait of Ned Waria, mamoose (headman). Mabuiag 1898. P.706.ACH1." F. Veys, 9/8/2006' [from record P.706.ACH1 ID 1/3/2012]