IDNO

LS.109378.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Saibai.
2 slides of Mawa masks (one with eye-slits to look through)." [manuscript in ink]

Documentary photograph of a wooden mawa mask made by Paneta and belonging to the Umai and Daibau augud of Saibai and now held in the collections of the British Museum. It appears as though Haddon took a copy of this photograph back to the Torres Strait in 1898 and gained information about the mask from Maino. [JD 18/5/2011]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Oceania Melanesia; Australia; Torres Strait; Saibai

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Paneta

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

circa October 1898

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Report V, Plate XVII, Fig. 2. and captioned, "Wooden mawa mask belonging to the Umai and Daibau augud; Saibai. British Museum (C.C. 2491). Length 635 mm. (p. 349)." [JD 18/5/2011]