IDNO

LS.109312.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "W. Torres Sts. MABUIAG.
Man standing on dugong-platform.
harpoon
coil of rope
dugong-charm." [manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Oceania Melanesia; Australia; Torres Strait; Mabuiag [Mabuyag]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

?1890

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Referenced in notebook titled ‘List of Torres-Straits Photographs. 1888 - 1889. A.C. Haddon’, "72. Neet, dugong platform, standing. Mabuiag." [JD 20/4/2011]

Date: Haddon arrived at Mabuiag 18/9/1888 and left 26/10/1888 (Journal 1888: 41-62). [J. Philp 23/2/1999]

Publication: Image published in Reports IV: Plate XXIII, fig. 1. [J. Philp 23/2/1999]

Related Archive: Neet or Nath built at Haddon’s instigation after the dugong hunting trip (e.g. N.22793.ACH2). He describes the photographing as "I had to take the photograph just before sundown and so it is not successful - furthermore I had to stand in the sea to get near enough to it" (1888: 58). [J. Philp 23/2/1999]

Related Archive: In his 1898 journal Haddon identifies the man "you remember the photo I took last time of a man on a dugong platform - well - it was Waria who made it for me and whome I photographed on the top of it" (1898: 229). [J. Philp 23/2/1999]

Related Image: Otto Finsch reproduced this image, along with P.1149.ACH1, as a watercolour and published it in O. Finsch, ‘Beiträge zur Völkerkunde der westlichen Südsee’ [‘Contributions to the ethnology of the western Pacific’], original images, Pl. 146. IV. Natives, Pl. III, and captioned "Dugong hunt; Mabiak (Jervis Isl.), Torres Str. 1. Man with harpoon and slain dugong. 2. Man with harpoon on platform." [Source: 'Between wealth and poverty: Otto Finsch on Mabuyag, 1881' by Hilary Howes. In Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Culture Volume 8 Part 1, 2015, p.233, JD 06/01/2021]