IDNO

LS.109311.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mer, Murray Is.
Two slides, showing fish-weirs ('Sai')." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.932.ACH1: "Fish weirs, Mer."

View from a hill, looking down to a path and beyond this to the sea. From the shore-line the border of a stone fish-trap juts out encircling the reef, eventually meeting with the line of another trap. [Jude Philp 25/5/1999, from record N.23191.ACH1]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Oceania Melanesia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mer [Murray Islands]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

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) captioned: "22. Fish weirs. Mer.
Vol. IV, p.158.
Photo. taken 1898 by A. Wilkin." [JD 08/09/2021]