IDNO

P.9402.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Dugout canoes, Kinomeri, Urama district, Aird Delta.”

Group of five dugout canoes and seven decorated men in a small creek. The men all stand holding paddles and wear an assortment of the following items of personal adornment: pubic shell; shell vaulables on their arms, through their nose, hung from their neck and or as a head band; bark belt; braided straps made from bark across their chests or around their arms. The upper right hand corner of the photograph is darkened.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Papuan Gulf; Delta Division; Aird River Delta; Urama; Kinomere Village [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Urama

Named Person

Photographer

de Rautenfeld, Paul

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

1925

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

de Rautenfeld, Paul

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: P.9403.ACH2 is taken in the same area.

Related Archive: Rautenfeld’s collection in addition to being in Cambridge are located within Basel and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA). Copies of this image are in both Basel and the MMA. In Basel it is catalogued as Vb5880, and in the MMA it is catalogued as1992.417.1061. The photo has the caption “Urama men in canoes near Kinomeri.”

Biographical Information: Dr. Paul Baron de Rautenfeld (1893-1957), while Customs Inspector in China for Switzerland visited New Guinea initially in 1923. After retiring he visited the island twice in 1925 and 1929. During his second trip in 1925, he visited the Papuan Gulf and took the photographs that form part of the Cambridge Museum’s holdings.

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