photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B40.25
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); three men standing out of doors all wearing cloth wraps, in front of three thatched roof buildings, one of the men is holding two javelin and spear throwers, another man is holding one javelin, the man standing in profile is holding a spear and spear-thrower in one hand and several javelin in the other hand; Mabuiag, Torres Strait Islands.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1888
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.30 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 15.30 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.40 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken on Alfred Haddon's trip in the summer of 1888 to the Torres Straits Islands. Many of these images were taken back to the Torres Straits Islands as lantern slides, as part of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait 1898-1899. Dr McNab created a list of Haddon's 1888 photographs, giving captions and numbers to the photographs.
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Related image: British Museum copy print of this image exists, with the Museum of Mankind number, MM027031
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Related image: The Cambridge Museum database has a glass negative of this image: IDNO: N.22812.ACH2
Inscription - "Mabuiag. Javelin throwing. Group of 3. 86".
Context notes that Haddon arrived in Mabuiag on 18/9/1888 and left on 26/10/1888.
The image in the Cambridge collection is a mirror image of the image in the British Museum collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B40.25
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 86 90 (Dr McNab's list of Haddon's 1888 photographs)
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Miscellaneous number: MM027031 (Museum of Mankind photographic series number)
