IDNO

N.109450.WHI

Description

European?, Spanish? and African? men in uniform and holding rifles. [JD 22/4/2010]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon

Cultural Affliation

South American Indian

Named Person

Photographer

Whiffen, Thomas William

Collector / Expedition

Date

1908 - 1909

Collection Name

Whiffen Collection

Source

Format

Glass Negative Halfplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The glass negatives in the Whiffen Collection were previously stored in two wooden trays numbered “Trays 105” on Shelf 3. Some of the glass negatives were found by the cataloguer in one of these trays, which was numbered C59/ by the cataloguer. The others were loose in piles on the shelf. An address label found in C59/ is addressed to a member of the Whiffen family and dated 1960. The label is now in the UCMAA archive, reference number W19/1/1. Each glass negative was stored, with duplicate glass negatives if any, in a museum archival bag. The bags containing images for which there is a corresponding mounted print in the Haddon Collection were marked with the original number of that print. A note by Gwil Owen which distinguished the printed and unprinted piles of glass negatives is now in the UCMAA archive, reference number W19/1/2. For full details see the Whiffen Collection record.

This glass plate was found unaccessioned in Box K.4.1, in a bag of glass plate negatives annotated as “Whiffen Negs - Rubbish?. G. Owen 27/10/1978.” [JD 22/4/2010]