IDNO

P.9440.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Single and double canoe, Mailu. Canoe in distance.

"Single outrigger canoe, waona, and double canoe, orou.
Each attachment of the float to the boom consists of two pairs of stick-connectives, the sticks cross under the boom.
Mailu." ['Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', OA2/11/1]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Mailu Island [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

11 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Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.124 for Wednesday 11th November is the following extract:
“My father and I spent the forenoon in the village, taking a large number of photographs of canoes and pot-making." [JD 11/4/2014]

Related Archive: Image published in OA2/11/1, 'Canoes and Pottery Making, New Guinea', pl. 29 and captioned:
"29. Single outrigger canoe, waona, and double canoe, orou.
Each attachment of the float to the boom consists of two pairs of stick-connectives, the sticks cross under the boom.
Mailu.
(Photo. by Kathleen Haddon)." [JD 22/08/2018]