IDNO

LS.109276.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "E. Torres Sts.
Mer, Murray Is.
"Papi" and
"Doboro"
full face." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card, from record P.874.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012: "Papi and Doboro (full) Mer."

Portrait of two men, Papi and Doboro, sitting facing the camera. Papi (left) has a beard and moustache and wears a striped jacket, shirt and bow tie, cloth/cumberbund and trousers. Doboro (right) is younger wears a moustache and has on a plaid shirt, short tie, jacket, cloth/cumberbund and trousers. [Jude Philp 17/5/1999, from record N.23133.ACH2, ID 15/3/2012]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Papi; Doboro

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

Papi and Doboro were father and son. Their genealogy appears in Reports IV, chart 17A from the village of Eger. [from record N.23133.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, 2/1998 - 3/2000, from record N.23133.ACH2, ID 15/3/2012]