IDNO

LS.109259.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mabuiag
Two old midwives" [manuscript in ink]

Two midwives stand side-by-side facing the camera, each with a young boy in front of them. Their hands rest on the boys’ shoulders. All of people in the portrait wear Western dress except for the boy on the right.

Full-length portrait of probably Gugui and Aun, two Mabuiag Island women who are annotated as being midwives. Both women are in their forties, wear Missionary dresses, and face the camera. The woman on the left has her hands resting on a small girl's shoulders, the woman on the rights’ hands rest on the shoulders of a small boy. In the background is a thatched house. [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.711.ACH1, updated JD 9/11/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Gugui; Aun

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

Related Archive: From Seligman’s journal "Got the two keenest midwives to yarn, called Gugui and Aun" (LSE archive room 1/1/1; p.67). [J. Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.710.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Bibliographical Reference: Also in Report V: 203, Footnote 1 "My informants Aun and Gugui, the two midwives of Mabuiag..." [J. Philp 6/2/1998, from record P.710.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]