IDNO

LS.109271.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "E. Torres Sts.
Mer, Murray Is.
"Alo"
front" [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card, from record P.837.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012: "Alo (front) Mer."

Portrait of Alo, a Meriam man (head and torso) seated facing the camera. He is bare chested. [Jude Philp 18/3/1999, updated JD 24/5/2011, from record P.837.ACH1, JD 15/3/2012] Lanternslide has been cropped from the original, P.837.ACH1 [ID 15/3/2012].

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer [Murray Island]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Alo

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

1898

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 X, fig 5. Companion photograph printed Plate X, fig 4. both with the caption "Alo".[Jude Philp 18/3/1999, from record P.837.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) and captioned: "4. Alo of Mer, a typical islander.
Photo. taken by 1898 by A. Wilkin." [JD 07/09/2021]

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; some portraits were taken in exchange for assistance with psychological testing (Myers 1898). [Jude Philp 18/3/1999, from record P.837.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]

Publication: Image published in 'Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from his Expeditions to the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888–89, 1898–99', Edited by Anita Herle and Jude Philp (Sydney University Press), Fig 4.2, and captioned: "Alo. Haddon made lantern slides of many of his field photographs, which he used in talks and for teaching. Mer, 1898. MAA LS.109271." [JD 09/03/2020]