IDNO

P.9417.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Tupuselei canoe at Pt. Moresby. Attachments.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Port Moresby; Tupuselei [British New Guinea; Tupusilei]

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

3 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Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.111 for Tuesday 3rd November, is the following extract:
“... after two and a half hours’ run reached Tupusilei. The bulk of this village is built on piles right out at sea and has no connection with the shore, so that the inhabitants must practically live in their canoes. There are a few scattered houses on the shore and also a dubu, or club-house, consisting of four great posts, elaborately carved and supporting about half-way way up a wooden platform. There was not time to do very much, so we examined the canoes and took photographs and then went on as we wanted to reach a good anchorage that evening." [JD 10/28/2014]