IDNO

D.156709.MAT

Description

Tracings of band patterns on warup drums, 1/2 nt. size.
The patterns are from warup drums in the following collections: A, Lond. Miss. Soc. coll. B, Glasgow Museum. C, Mer, formerly in Prof. C. Stewart's coll. D, Nagir, A.C.H coll. E, Lond. Miss. Soc. coll. F, Tutu, British Museum (pl. XXXVII. fig.2). G, Nagir, Edge Partington coll.

Place

Oceania Australasia; Europe British Isles; Australia; United Kingdom; Torres Strait Islands; Mer; Tutu; Nagir; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; London; British Museum; Scotland; Glasgow Museum [London Missionary Society]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Alfred Cort Haddon; Prof. C. Stewart; Edge Partington

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.366, Fig 350 and captioned "Band patterns on warup drums, 1/2 nt. size. A, Lond. Miss. Soc. coll. B, Glasgow Museum. C, Mer, formerly in Prof. C. Stewart's coll. D, Nagir, A.C.H coll. E, Lond. Miss. Soc. coll. F, Tutu, British Museum (pl. XXXVII. fig.2). G, Nagir, Edge Partington coll." [JD 15/08/2025]