IDNO

P.9411.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoes, Delena (photo)” [typed text]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

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

circa October - 20 November 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Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.101 is the following extract: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]