IDNO

LS.109284.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "E. Torres Sts.
Dauar, Murray Is.
Mer people on Dauar.
Beach scene. [female symbol] smoking pipe.
(baskets, coco-nut water vessels, shell vessel for water, stone tops or tt-to-tum, fire place with stones)." [manuscript in ink]

Four people sitting cross-legged on the beach. To the far left is a man sitting near a bag and nesur (coconut water carriers). Next to him is a second man who is bare-chested and has a bag over his shoulder and a bu (cone) shell and two nesur on either side of him. Beside him is a young woman holding some wangai (wild plum), and with a stone spinning top in front. On the far right is a woman smoking from a bamboo tobacco pipe, wearing a missionary dress and with some food laid out in front of her. In the background a bamboo fence and a stand of vegetation. [Jude Philp 23/2/1999, updated JD 19/7/2011]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Torres Strait, 1888 - 1889]

Date

1 January 1889 - 5 April 1889

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Reports IV: Plate XXI, fig. 3. and captioned: "Fig. 3. Group on beach, Dauar (pp. 119, 122, 123, 141, 156, 315)." [JD 08/09/2021]

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) captioned: "19. Group on beach at Dauar, Murray islands.
Baskets, coconut and shell water vessels (Case 7), stone top (Case 8); a woman smoking a bamboo tobacco pipe (Case 9).
Photo. taken 1889 by A.C. Haddon." [JD 08/09/2021]