IDNO

P.9387.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Man hollowing out a canoe with a stone adze. Note carved bow-end of canoe. Purari Delta.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138526.TC1: B.N.G. Delta Div. XXXV.31. Delta Div. 38.31B.
Purari delta.
Kaimari. Man hollowing-out a canoe with a stone adze.

A man stands hollowing out the inside of a canoe with a stone adze. The side of the canoe has a carved and painted pattern known as imunu paku, “spirit-being face.” The tide is low and the canoe sits in the mud, its prow suspended above the mud. Behind the canoe is the thatching of a house.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Delta Division; Papuan Gulf; Purari Delta; Kaimari Village [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Kairmari, Purari Delta

Named Person

Photographer

Hurley, Frank (Capt.)

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

1922

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Hurley, Frank (Capt)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Hurley reached the village of Kaimari in the Purari Delta on October 6,1922, where he stayed taking photographs and collecting objects for two weeks. On his return to Port Moresby, Hurley spent several nights in Kaimari in early January 1923.

The main bulk of Hurley’s photographs are located in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Within this collection this image is V.4280 and is captioned “Man using a stone-bladed adze, Kaimari village, Gulf Province.”

Copy plates and originals are also held in the National Library of Australia and the Macleay Museum at Sydney University.

This catalogue record was updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Joshua Bell 06/01/2004]