IDNO

P.9383.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe, Sumai, Kiwai I.” [typed text]
“for erection at bow” [manuscript in pencil]

Young boy sitting in the bow of a canoe, drawn onto the shore, showing the upa shield erected on the prow.
Published in Landtman 1927: Fig 71. Captioned "Bow of Sumai canoe with upa shield." [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

Publication: Image published in Landtman, G (1927). The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea: A Nature-Born instance of Rousseau's Ideal Community. London: Macmillian & Co., fig. 71.

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]