IDNO

LS.109255.TC1

Description

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

Portrait of Gizu. He wears a dark shirt and ear lobe is cut in the traditional style. [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, from record, P.707.ACH1 ID 8/3/2012]

Half-length portrait of Gizu, a Mabuiag male elder, looking away from the camera. He has a full beard and moustache and wears a dark shirt and ear lobe is cut in the customary style. [Jude Philp 11/3/1999, updated JD 10/4/2011, from record P.707.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Gizu

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: Image reproduced in Reports I: Plate IX, fig. 2
This photograph shows Gizu, an elder, who appears in the genealogical tables (2). Gizu tells many of the ‘folk-lore’ stories in Reports V as well as drawing numerous illustrations throughout the volume. [J.Philp 6/2/1998, from record, P.707.ACH1 ID 8/3/2012]

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). [J.Philp 6/2/1998, from record, P.707.ACH1 ID 8/3/2012]