IDNO

P.9405.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Canoes, Orokolo (photo)

Detail of the outrigging of a canoe in a river. The bottom right hand corner of the photograph is washed out obscuring the canoe. [JB 06/01/2004]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Gulf Division; Papuan Gulf; Orokolo [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Orokolo; Elema

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

21 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]

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.87 for Wednesday, 21st October, is the following extract:
“Orokolo consists of a series of villages scattered along the beach, and the main one where the London Missionary station is situated was about three miles from ours. Accordingly we started off soon after breakfast, deciding to go there by the beach and study the canoes, have lunch, and then return through the villages to see the houses and people. The tide was up, and discarding our shoes and stockings my father and I kept along the water’s edge on the cool wet sand. Every now and again a canoe was drawn up high on the beach, and we went and examined these, taking notes and if need be a photograph or sketch." [JD 8/1/2015]

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