IDNO

LS.109277.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "E. Torres Sts.
Mer, Murray Is.
Billy Gasu
& Jimmy Rice
front view" [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card, from record P.863.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012: "Gasu and Rice (full) Mer."

Portrait of a Torres Strait Islander man, Billy Gasu, and a boy, Jimmy Rice Jr, sitting facing the camera (head and shoulders). Gasu is wearing a Chinese style shirt with a hibiscus flower in the pocket; Jimmy is wearing a shirt, calico (sarong) and scarf knotted at his neck from which is tied a hibiscus flower. [Jude Philp 19/3/1999, updated JD 1/11/2009, from record P.863.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Billy Gasu (Bili; Billij); Jimmy Rice Jnr

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

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.863.ACH1, ID 15/3/2012]