M0005687: Rain shrine, Torres Straits

Date:: 23 September 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/46/98

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005590-M0005690WT/D/1/20/1/46
        M0005687: Rain shrine, Torres StraitsWT/D/1/20/1/46/98

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M0005687: Rain shrine, Torres Straits. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustration of Rain shrine at Lewag, erected by Gasu from Expeditions to the Torres Straits

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a rain shrine constructed from four screens surrounding rain charms, known as Doiom. Reproduced as plate VIII in Haddon, Alfred C: Reports of the Cambridge anthropological expedition to Torres Straits. Volume VI. Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Eastern Islanders, Cambridge: University Press, 1908. A photograph of the book plate was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10943).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the photograph: acc. number PHO 10943

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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