IDNO

LS.109289.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "W. Torres Sts.
Village scene, quadrangular huts, men with pipe & bows & arrows.
Hair done up in ringlets.
koima on shoulders." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Dalrymple Island [Damut]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

H.S. Melville [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

Date

1898

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) in two parts and captioned:
"15. The old type of house of the Central islands, drawn at Damut by H.S. Melville in 1844. The men are wearing their hair in long ringlets stiffened with mud, one has a koima on his shoulder, another a bamboo pipe, and the third is carrying a bow and arrows. Note the original native dog.
Vol. IV, p.96." [JD 07/09/2021]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Oceania Australasia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer [Murray Island]", but referencing the above Archive OA2/16/4, shows that it relates to Damut. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 07/09/2021]

Place: Haddon writes of Damut in Torres Strait Reports Vol. 1, p.93 "Damut, Damud or Jarmuth (Dalrymple Island) is a flat sandy, wooded island about a mile in length and over a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is situated about 22 miles north- east of Tud.
Damut (Dalrymple Island, Island H of Blyth and L of Portlock) was the first central island to be visited by Europeans, but they did not land." [JD 07/09/2021]