IDNO

P.9450.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Motuans steering a sailing canoe. Pt Moresby.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Port Moresby [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Motu

Named Person

Photographer

Pitt-Rivers, George Lane Fox

Collector / Expedition

Date

1921

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: A series of three images made by George Pitt-Rivers in Aua Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in 1921 are held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, references 1998.245.201 and1998.276.105.1-2. [Source: http://databases.prm.ox.ac.uk/fmi/webd#Photos_PRM, JD 11/09/2017]

Bibliographical Reference: Haddon and Hornell: Canoes of Oceania Vol: II pp. 177-79. [JD 11/09/2017]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 31/10/2012]