IDNO

LS.109264.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "W. Torres Sts.
Mabuiag
Group of children." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card, from record P.703.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012: "Children, Mabuiag."

Group portrait of twelve young boys, with four seated cross-legged at the front and the remaining eight standing to the front or side. The boys are dressed in worn short calicos (wrap-around cloth). The boys look 5-7 years old and those facing the side have enlarged abdomens. [Jude Philp 6/2/1998, 16/2/2000, updated JD 2/11/2009, from record P.703.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Torres Strait, 1888 - 1889]

Date

October 1888

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Referenced in notebook titled ‘List of Torres-Straits Photographs. 1888 - 1889. A.C. Haddon’, "102. Group of children. Mabuiag." [JD 20/4/2011, from record P.703.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Related Archive: See Box 309; OA216/17/ Dr McNabb’s list of Haddon’s 1888 photos: "Mabuiag Children". [from record P.703.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Date: Elizabeth Edwards has noted on the catalogue card "This is October 1888" [EE, 1/1997, from record P.703.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]

Related Archive: Haddon writes of the Mabuiag children in his 1888 journal, p.48:
"Evening service @ 7 P.M.. On Sat. & Sunday evenings the native camp joins the missionary’s [sic] at prayers. On Sundays, school/secular instruction (for children) & 10 children in school have adults in church. Service 11 and in aft. @ 3 evening prayer, after the sermon is gone over by the teacher & the congregation catechised on Monday morng. There is school for children fr. 7-9 A.M. –" [JD 2/4/2011, from record P.703.ACH1, ID 8/3/2012]