IDNO

LS.109260.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mabuiag & Badu
Side view of 2 girls’ heads:
"Tetakul", of Badu
& "Aigaga", of Mabuiag. Hair cut short
but leaving ridge from ear to ear, over
vertex. Lobe of ear distended & cut to
form a pendant cord. perforations in
(?)margin of ears." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card, from record P.1081.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012: "2 girls, side view."

Half-length portrait of two Mabuiag women sitting side on to the camera and back-to-back. Neither women wears a dress or shirt and the women on the right has her ear lobes pierced in the traditional style and wears a band on her upper arm. The background is out of focus, but probably a beach scene. [JD 4/5/2011, from record P.1081.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag; Badu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Tetakul; Aigaga

Photographer

Finsch, Otto (Dr)

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

November 1882

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: This photograph appears in Reports IV: plate II. Fig 4, to illustrate ear elongation and hair styles. The woman on the right, "Aigaga" is pictured next to a frontal photograph. The caption reads "Fig. 3,4. Aigaga, Mabuiag (pp. 10, 30, 55). From photographs by Dr Otto Finsch, 1882." [ID 8/3/2012]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Torres Strait", but Otto Finsch only visited Mabuiag druing his tour in 1882. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 4/5/2011, from record P.1081.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Photographer: Haddon notes that ‘his good friend’ Dr Otto Finsch was at Mabuiag November 1882. The glass plate negative envelope identifies this as one of his photographs. [JD 4/5/2011, from record P.1081.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Bibliographical Reference: From Report I: page 13 "Dr O Finsch, who explored so much of the northern coast of New Guinea, paid a visit to Torres Straits in 1882, but did not find much there to interest him as a collector." [JD 4/5/2011, from record P.1081.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]