IDNO

LS.109254.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mabuiag
"Naui" or Tom: side view of head.
Stature 1683 m. = 5.6 1/4
C.I. = 76.7 Alt.I. 64.8 & 84.5. Alv.I. 105.8
Nas.I. = 82.7. Nas.mal.I. 113.2
Fac.I Total 90.7. Upper. 53.6." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card, from record P.705.ACH1: "Tom, Mabuiag."

Half-length portrait in profile of Tom, a Mabuiag man, wearing a white long-sleeved vest. His trimmed whiskers and moustache can be clearly seen. [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, updated JD 6/4/2011, from record P.705.ACH1, ID 1/3/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Naui (Tom)

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

Publication: Printed in Reports I: Plate IX, fig. 3
This photograph shows Tom one of the Islanders who worked most with the Expedition on Mabuiag. E.g. "I made most satisfactory progress by working with one of the younger men who acted as our chief assistants, Waria (1), Tom (9A) or Peter (6)" (Rivers in Reports V: 123). The bracketed numbers refer to the genealogical tables. Several other photographs exist of Tom (see above). [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.705.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.705.ACH1, ID 1/3/2012]