IDNO

P.9425.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Double canoe, Kapakapa.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.116991.TC1: “B.N.G. Papua Kapa Kapa.
Pile Dwellings.” [manuscript in ink]

"Double canoe and marine village.
Shall double canoes with a simple platform occur all along the south coast of the Central Division.
Probably Kapakapa." ['Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', OA2/11/1]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; near Port Moresby; 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Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.112 for Tursday 5th November is the following extract:
“In the morning we found that the village, like Tupusilei, was built on piles, and was about five hundred yards from the shore. We examined the canoes drawn up on the beach, took some photographs ..." [JD 27/10/2014]

Related Archive: Image published in OA2/11/1, 'Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', pl. 30 and captioned:
"30. Double canoe and marine village.
Shall double canoes with a simple platform occur all along the south coast of the Central Division.
Probably Kapakapa.
(Photo. by Kathleen Haddon)." [JD 22/08/2018]