IDNO

P.9403.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Dugout canoes, in the creek between Kinomeri and Maiaki, Urama district, Aird Delta.

Three canoes, each with an adorned adult man, standing holding a paddle in a small creek. Each wears an assortment of the following items of personal adornment: cassowary headress; 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. Two of the men wear loin cloths.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Papuan Gulf; Delta Division; Aird River Delta; Urama; near Kinomere village; near Maiaki 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

P.9402.ACH2 is taken in the same area.

Rautenfeld’s collection in addition to being in Cambridge are located within Basel and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA).

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]