IDNO

P.9393.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoes, Delta, Div. (photo)” [typed text]
“raft” [manuscript in pencil].

A man stands on a wooden raft poling across a river. On the far bank are several houses [Joshua Bell 9/6/2004].

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Delta Division; Papuan Gulf; Purari Delta; ?Maipua [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Maipua; Purari Delta

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

17 October 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Rishbeth, Kathleen (nee Haddon)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Expedition: A.C. Haddon and his daughter, Kathleen Rishbeth arrived in the Papuan Gulf on October 7th, 1914. They spent two weeks in the Delta Division, the administrative division that covered the western side of the Papuan Gulf before leaving the region for Port Moresby. [JB 06/01/2004]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 09/06/2004]