IDNO

LS.109347.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mer, Murray Is.
Back view of widow in mourning costume, includ. relics of her husband." [manuscript in ink]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Haddon, Trevor [Artist]

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

MAA Exhibition: Same image included in 1920s Exhibition Case Binders "Cases 5-10. Torres Strait." (OA2/16/4) in two parts and captioned: "13. Back view of a widow in mourning. Mer.
She wears: a particular kind of skirt; the long nagar fringe which hangs form the neck back and front and reaches as far as the knees. it is tucked under the belt; fringes on the arms and legs; suspended in front from necklaces various objects worn by her husband, sticks bound with sago leaf which were the measure of his arms and leg bones, fingers, and nose, dried palms of his hands, and on the back arm and leg-bands of the deceased and the dried soles of his feet, all these pendents are kept in place by crossed shoulder-belts. (Case 5)
Vol. VI, p.157." [JD 07/09/2021]