IDNO

LS.109327.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mabuiag and Badu.
Totem scarifications on the back of women: -
1. Ado, of Badu w. a dugong, dangal.
2. Patagam of Mabiag, (Tabu dangal clan) with a snake tabu)." [manuscript in ink]

Drawing of the backs of two women, Ado from Badu, on the left, with dangal augud (dugong totem) as reflected cicatrisation designs, and Patagam from Mabuiag, on the right with tabu augud (snake totem) in the form of reflected spiral designs.
The drawing is based (in reverse) on the photograph P.23314.ACH2 where the women are shown wearing shirts that have been lifted to show their totems. [JD 20/5/2011, updated JD 15/07/2019]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Oceania Melanesia; Australia; Torres Strait; Badu; 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

Publication: A number of photographs were made of women with scarification markings, usually relating to their totems or augad. Associated references can be found in Reports V: 158, although this particular photograph is not referenced. [Jude Philp, 6/2/1998]

Publication: See also Elizabeth Edwards in Herle and Rouse CUP1998 for a discussion of Haddon’s use of such images. [Jude Philp, 6/2/1998]

Publication: Patagam’s (5a in the genealogies) totem scarification is discussed in Reports V: 158 and fig.2 IX, which includes a drawing made by Trevor Haddon from Haddon’s photographs and sketches from 1888. These were also published in his 1890 monograph. [Jude Philp, 2/1998 - 3/2000, from record P.714.ACH1, JD 10/4/2011]

Publication: Right image published in Brady, Liam M. "Symbolic Language in Torres Strait, NE Australia: Images from Rock Art, Portable Objects and Human Scars." Antiquity 82, no. 316 (2008): 336–50, p.343, and captioned: "Figure 3, e) snake totem
scars on Patagam from Mabuyag (Haddon 1904: Plate 9, courtesy of Cambridge University Press)." [JD 15/04/2021]

Related Image: This appears to be a drawing based on photograph P.23314.ACH2, there is no known original negative of P.23314.ACH2. [JD 23/11/2010]

Date: The Date field was previously recorded as being "1888 - 1898", but based on the format of the original print that is drawing was based on, P.23315.ACH2, the image dates to 1888. (See following note.) The Date field has been amended accordingly. [JD 23/11/2010]