IDNO

P.9382.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe, Sumai, Kiwai I.”

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138507.TC1: B.N.G. West. XXXV.14. B.N.G. W. Div. 38.14.
Sumai. Kiwai I. Estuary of the Fly.
Small canoe.
single mast
single outrigger, 2 booms.
charm at bow.

Two men and a boy rowing a single outrigger canoe (tatáku), with one mast and furled sail [Mark Elliott 06/01/04]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Western Province; Fly River Estuary; Kiwai Island; Sepe [British New Guinea; Western Division; Sumai]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Landtman, Gunnar

Collector / Expedition

Date

1910 - 1912

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Sumai and Auti villages amalgamated to form the land of Sepe village. Recently a new break-away village re-established at the old Auti site due to coastal erosion at Wamimuba [Wami Point]. (See Gunnar Landtman in Papua 1910 to 1912' by David Lawrence with assistance from Pirjo Varjola (The Australian National University E Press, 2010', p.117). [JD 10/02/2021]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 06/01/04]