IDNO

LS.109272.TC1

Description

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

On Catalogue Card, from record P.855.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012: "Smoke (full) Mer."

Portrait of a man (Smoke) sitting facing the camera (head and shoulders). He is wearing a Chinese-style shirt. [Jude Philp 19/3/1999, from record P.855.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012] The lanternslide is a duplicate of, but reversed from, the original, P.855.ACH1. [ID 15/3/2012]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Smoke

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony or (?) Rivers, William Halse Rivers

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 Image: A boy aged about ten years old named as Smoke was photographed by Haddonat Mer in 1888 (N.22847.ACH2). It is unclear if this is the same person. [JD 25/5/2011, from record P.855.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]

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; some portraits were taken in exchange for assistance with psychological testing (Myers 1898). [Jude Philp 19/3/1999, from record P.855.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]