IDNO

P.9432.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Firing outside of canoe, Kerepunu."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.138538.TC1: "B.N.G. 38.43, 44.
Keapara. Burning the outside of a canoe.
[Ditto]. Burning the inside of canoe."

On Manual Listing: "44. Burning outside of a canoe in order to make it open out and to harden the wood. The sitting man is holding a torch of palm leaves." [typed text]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Wilkin, Anthony

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Cambridge University Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, 1898 - 1899]

Date

circa 7 June 1898

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionTorres Strait Island Expedition

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: In folder FG1/1/9, a listing of Haddon's lanternslides provides the following caption: "44. Burning outside of a canoe in order to make it open out and to harden the wood. The sitting man is holding a torch of palm leaves." [JD 12/11/2021]

Related Archive: Image published in OA2/11/1, 'Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', pl. 26b and captioned:
"26B. Firing the outside of a canoe.
After the canoes are dug-out and trimmed down they are charred by fires lit outside and inside them; the effect of this is to harden the wood and so make it more seaworthy; it also makes them open out more widely." [JD 22/08/2018]