IDNO

P.9413.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe, Pt. Moresby.”

"Single outrigger canoe, vanagi.
It shows the local method of attaching the float to the booms; there is one pair of undercrossed sticks and two single oblique sticks. From the stern to the fore boom is a weather-screen composed of coconut cloth (the sheath of the leaf of the palm): this is peculiar to this district.
Port Moresby." ['Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', OA2/11/1]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Port Moresby [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 16 September - 20 November 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Other Numbers: N.37923.KH and N.37924.KH are a frame sequence for film 26. [JD 10/23/2014]

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.109 for Monday 2nd November, is the following extract:
“All this time I had not visited the native villages which lay along the shore about ten minutes’ walk from Government House, so I spent the morning of our last day exploring them and taking photographs. There are really five villages although they are all practically continuous; Hanuabada and Tanobada, each consisting of two villages, are built on the beach, Elevara on a small island near by and joined to the mainland by a singularly rickety-looking bridge with houses on either side. All the houses are built on piles and they have an extremely unstable appearance, but must be safer that they look. At low tide they are high and dry, but at high tide they all stand in the water, consequently canoes are much used and the children can all swim before they can walk." [JD 27/10/2014]

Related Archive: Image published in OA2/11/1, 'Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', pl. 27 and captioned:
"27. Single outrigger canoe, vanagi.
It shows the local method of attaching the float to the booms; there is one pair of undercrossed sticks and two single oblique sticks. From the stern to the fore boom is a weather-screen composed of coconut cloth (the sheath of the leaf of the palm): this is peculiar to this district.
Port Moresby.
(Photo. by Kathleen Haddon)." [JD 22/08/2018]