IDNO

P.9404.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "My canoe opposite the village of Kinomeri Urama district, Aird Delta, overtaken by the ebb-tide. It was quite a job to get it pushed into the Gope river."

Large canoe with twenty-one men and boys standing alongside it. The canoe has a palm leaf shelter in its middle. The canoe rests in the mud bottom of a creek in low-tide. On the left side of the photograph on the river’s bank is a house on stilts.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Delta Division; Papuan Gulf; Aird River Delta; Urama; Gope River; 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

Rautenfeld’s collection in addition to being in Cambridge are located within Basel and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA). A copy of this image is in the collection of the MMA, where it is catalogued as1992.417.803. The photo has the caption “Large Group in Water” and is identified as being in Urama Island, Aird Delta.

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]