IDNO

P.9392.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Canoes, Delta, Div. (photo)

“Canoes. Estuary of the Fly River.
Madiri. Fly River.” [Haddon's annotation on P.59774.KH]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Western Province; Fly River Estuary; Madiri [British New Guinea; Western Division]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Kathleen (later Rishbeth)

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort and Haddon, Kathleen (later Rishbeth) [Expedition to New Guinea, 16 September - 20 November 1914]

Date

circa ?28 September 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Delta Division [British New Guinea]” based on the Catalogue Card. However this does not match the film reference of '8' for the duplicate negative N.37907.KH, nor the annotation of 'Madiri. Fly River' on the reverse of the duplicate print P.59774.KH. As the latter two are in accord, the Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 19/1/2015]

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, pp.31 - 33 for Monday 28 September, is the following extract:
“Our next point of call was Madiri, a plantation on the west bank of the Fly River just beyond the numerous islands that beset its mouth. ...
About four miles above Madiri is the native village of Tirio, which we decided to visit in the afternoon as it was a good chance to see some natives at our furthest point up the Fly River. Two natives had just come down in a small canoe, and it was arranged that I should seize the opportunity of traveling in this, whilst my father and our host followed in the dinghy." [JD 19/1/2015]