Rare models

Roger Casement, the Amazon, and the ethnographic picturesque

Bibliographic Data

ID7214027
AuthorsLesley Wylie (University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume18
Issue3
Pages315-330
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIrish Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-0882 • E-ISSN: 1469-9303
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09670882.2010.493024
PMID20726132
OpenAlexW2028155965
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

In 1910 Roger Casement was sent by the British government to investigate the alleged humanitarian abuses of the Peruvian Amazon Company in the Putumayo, a disputed border zone in North West Amazonia. Casement brought more than verbal and written testimony back to London. On 26 June, some six months after he returned from the Amazon, Casement collected two Amerindian boys - Omarino and Ricudo - from Southampton docks. This paper will reconstruct the brief period that these young men spent in Britain in the summer of 1911 and assess, in particular, to what extent they were treated as 'exhibits' by Casement, who not only introduced them to leading members of the British establishment but also arranged for them to be painted and photographed following contemporary ethnographic conventions

Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History

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