IDNO

LS.109273.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "E. Torres Sts.
Mer, Murray Is.
"Lepeta" (no. 12) [male symbol], front view of head
C.I. = 68.3 (?)Dolichoceph.
Length Height = 64.3 Tapeinoceph.
Breadth 94.2" [manuscript in ink]

Head and shoulders portrait of Lopeta, a Meriam man, facing the camera. He is wearing a closely buttoned shirt. [Jude Philp 8/3/1999, updated JD 23/5/2011, from record P.71711.ACH2, ID 15/3/2012]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Lepeta

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 XI, fig. 3 with the caption "Photographs of natives of Mer. Photographed by A. Wilkin". [Jude Philp, 8/3/1999, from record P.71711.ACH2, 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, 8/3/1999, from record P.71711.ACH2, ID 15/3/2012]