IDNO

P.9434.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Single canoes, Paramana, Aroma.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Aroma; Paramana [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 5 - 6 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Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, pp.116 - 117 for Thursday 5th ?– Friday 6th ? November, is the following extract:
"With the sun at our backs next morning we were able to make the entrance through the reef to Aroma, but as the chief village was just opposite the entrance and the sea was rolling in, we found it too rough to make a landing there. Accordingly we ran westwards inside the reef, and anchored off the village of Parama [sic? Paramana], the most westerly of the Aroma villages. The houses, which are placed just behind the beach within a stockade ..." [JD 11/6/2014]