IDNO

P.9388.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Canoe with a number of men, Purari, called Goaribari in book, p. 187 Pearls and Savages.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138523.TC1: B.N.G. Delta Div. XXXV.29. B.N.G. Delta Div. 38.29.
14 men in a canoe.

Group of fifteen men plus men standing in a canoe. Each man wears an assortment of adornment: cassowary feather headress, shell valuables on their heads, arms, around their necks, and covering their pubic area, as well as bark belts around their waists. Each holds a paddle. [Joshua Bell 06/01/2004]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Delta Division; Papuan Gulf; Goaribari Island [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Goaribari; Kerewa

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

Bibliographical Reference: See Hurley.F 1924, Pearls and Savages. p. 187.

Date: Hurley reached the village of Kerewa on Goaribari island in early January 1923, where he stayed taking photographs and collecting objects for several days.

Related Archive: The main bulk of Hurley’s photographs are located in the Australian Museum, Sydney. 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]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 31/10/2012]