IDNO

P.9422.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Canoe, ? Kapakapa.

"Single outrigger canoes.
This distinctive type of outrigger attachment begins at Tupuselei and extends to Aroma. Typically there are forked booms. Each attachment consists of two vertical stick-connectives, one on each side of the fork of a boom, to which they are lashed, sometimes the upper ends of the sticks are lashed together.
Kapakapa." ['Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', OA2/11/1]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Kapakapa [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

1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Image published in OA2/11/1, 'Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', pl. 28 and captioned:
"28. Single outrigger canoes.
This distinctive type of outrigger attachment begins at Tupuselei and extends to Aroma. Typically there are forked booms. Each attachment consists of two vertical stick-connectives, one on each side of the fork of a boom, to which they are lashed, sometimes the upper ends of the sticks are lashed together.
Kapakapa.
(Kathleen Haddon)." [JD 22/08/2018]