IDNO

D.156708.MAT

Description

Tracings showing details of "Details of decoration of a buruburu drum, Viena Museum (43305) 1/3 nat. size. A, ornamentation of the handle and its extendion on to the drum. B, band at tympanic end, the central spot marked by [arrow symbol]. C, lizard at the open end, there is one of each side (1901 p.370)."

Place

Oceania Australasia; W Europe; Australia; Torres Strait Islands; Vienna Museum

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits and Sarawak, 1898 - 1899]

Date

pre 1901

Collection Name

Museum Archives Transfer

Source

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.156647.MAT - P.156864.MAT and P.176654.MAT - P.176687.MAT were found unaccessioned in a red folder box in the Paper Archives and transferred to the Photograph Collections and numbered C1048/ [JD 28/08/2025]

Publication: Image published in Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. IV (Cambridge University Press, 1901), p.370, Fig 356 and captioned "Details of decoration of a buruburu drum, Viena Museum (43305) 1/3 nat. size. A, ornamentation of the handle and its extendion on to the drum. B, band at tympanic end, the central spot marked by [arrow symbol]. C, lizard at the open end, there is one of each side." [JD 15/08/2025]