IDNO

P.9397.ACH1

Description

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

Close up of a decorated canoe prow near the bank in the water. The carving is a sytlised human face known locally as imunu paku "spirt-being face" with an attached band of decorative pattern. Another canoe, with a man standing in it, lies behind this canoe [Joshua Bell 9/6/2004].

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Papuan Gulf

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; ?20 or 25 October 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

See Archive Box 178, Envelope WO6/1/13 (Interview with Mrs Rishbeth).

Related Image: Same village as depicted in P.1596.ACH1, which is identified as Maipua, which the Haddon's visited on the 17th October 1914, and then sailed past again on the 20th October. This contradicts the negative film reference of 19 or 22, which dates the photo to circa 25th October. [JD 11/20/2014]

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 1/6/2004]

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.76 for Saturday 17th October is the following possibly relevant extract:
"On the following day Mr. Cardew came down in his launch on order to take us to a large native village some distance off. ... After about an hour and a half’s run we reached Maipua, a large village of about two thousand inhabitants, built along the riverbank. It is not far from the sea and is more visited by traders and recruiters than the other places we had seen, and hence we found that prices were a good deal higher. "
On Tuesday 20th October, p. 84, KAthleen Haddon records:
"It was early afternoon before we finally started. We went past Maipua where they were still dancing, and kept on in an easterly direction ..." [JD 11/19/2014]

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