IDNO

P.9409.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe and mangroves, Delena” [typed text]
“Double [canoe] with old type of oblong sail.” [manuscript in pencil].

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Delena [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Haddon, Alfred Cort, 1898

Date

?1898; ?1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.101 is the following extract:
“Delena has for some time been a London Missionary Station, and we found there Mr Dauncey, the Secretary of the Papuan branch. There is a fair-sized native village along the beach, and plenty of canoes to examine. Some of them were carved, and we took rubbings of the designs to the intense amusement and interest of the children ..." [JD 22/10/2014]

Photographer: This print is attributed to Kathleen Haddon, but the glass plate format and negative reference, including the black ink used, is in accord with Haddon's 1898 Expedition. The record has been amended accordingly. [JD 22/10/2014]