photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B41.20
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a man and three children standing beside a wooden canoe with mat sails, on the beach; two of the children are standing on the canoe; the man is wearing a t-shirt; Mabuiag, Torres Strait Islands.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1888
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.70 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.40 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 15 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.30 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 photographic series number: MM027038
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The Cambridge Museum own a photographic print of this image: IDNO: P.23308.ACH2
The inscription reads: "Canoe - Mabuiag. 80".
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B41.20
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 80 (Haddon photographic series number (1888))
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Miscellaneous number: MM027038 (Museum of Mankind photographic series number)