IDNO

LS.109274.TC1

Description

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

On Catalogue Card, from record P.831.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012: "Work, Mer (full)."

Portrait of Work (also spelt Wag and Wark), a young Meriam man (head/torso) seated looking at the camera. He wears striped shirt, polka-dot tie and jacket; the lobe of his ear is cut in the customary style. [Jude Philp 18/3/1999, updated JD 24/5/2011, from record P.831.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Wag (Work; Wark)

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. 1 captioned "Wag". [Jude Philp 18/3/1999, from record P.831.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 18/3/1999, from record P.831.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]