Anthony Wilkin was chosen to be the photographer on a major anthropological expedition to the Torres Straits organised by A. C. Haddon, a lecturer in Physical Anthropology at Cambridge University. Haddon and Wilkin, alon with six other colleagues and students reached Thursday Island on 22nd April 1890 and left Torres Straits in November. Wilkin, an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge, had attended Haddon's lectures and as well as photographing the expedition, was also responsible for the study of certain areas of material culture. The Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits were published from 1901 to 1935. After his return from Torres Straits he set out to North Africa where he did further researches until his untimely death in Cairo in 1901. His name continues by the Anthony Wilkin Studentship for ethnological and archaeological field-work.
Images include portraits, village life and artefacts.