IDNO

P.4757.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Sites 7,8,9. Shelters or fireplaces in norhtern group associated with site 4. Site 7 half in picture at left. Sea in background. Hull Island. Phoenix group

Place

Oceania Micronesia; Kiribati; Phoenix Islands; Orona [Hull Island]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Asaeda, Toshio

Collector / Expedition

Templeton Crocker Expedition to the western Polynesian and Melanesian islands, 1933

Date

1933

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Oceania; Polynesia; Phoenix Islands; Hull Island; Oceania; Polynesia; Kiribati; Orona”, but Hull Island is the historic name for Orona, an island on the Phoenix Islands. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 26/6/2009]

Collector / Expedition: The photographer was probably taken during the Bishop Museum’s Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Phoenix Islands, 1933.
Information on the expedition was published by Te Rangi Hiroa, AN INTRODUCTION TO POLYNESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY, (Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1945, New York) pp.55-56:
BISHOP MUSEUM STAFF EXPEDITIONS ...
“First Zaca Expedition (1933)
An expedition to the Solomon Islands was organized by Templeton Crocker in 1933, and through his courtesy the Museum was represented on the Crocker yacht, Zaca, by Gordon Macgregor, Bishop Museum Fellow for 1931. The islands visited in Polynesia were Pukapuka, where Macgregor obtained information which was published by the Museum (Occasional Papers, XI, 6, 1935), and Hull and Sydney Islands in the Phoenix group, where 31 archaeological sites were studied. In addition to the Solomon Islands, a number of Melanesian islands, which are usually regarded as Polynesian outliers, were visited. These were Nupaki and Naloko in the Santa Cruz Islands, Sikiana, Rennell, Bellona, Matema, in the Reef Islands, and Anuda. Observations were made, and Mr. Crocker gave the Museum a fine set of photographs.
Second Zaca Expedition (1934-1935)
The second expedition organized by Templeton Crocker was accompanied by H. L. Shapiro. The Zaca visited the Society Islands, Tatakoto and Hao in the Tuamotus, the Austral Islands, Rapa, Mangareva, Pitcairn, and Easter Island. Shapiro was able to procure additional physical measurements to round off the material for Polynesia.” [Source: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucIntr-t1-body-d7-d8.html, JD 22/3/2011]

Photographer: Toshio Asaeda worked for Templeton Crocker as a photographer and artist from 1932-1938. [Source: California Academy of Sciences, http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/library/?p=476, JD 22/3/2011]

This catalogue record was updated with the support of the Getty Grant Foundation [Mark Elliott 27/4/2004]