IDNO

P.9455.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Dug-out canoe with Nipa palm sails.

Dug-out canoe with two make-shift sails made from nipa palm leaves. Eleven men and women sit and stand in the canoe. Several of the men hold paddles [Joshua Bell 9/6/2004].

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Delta Division; Papuan Gulf; Purari Delta; Urika [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Purari Delta

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 ?15 - ?21 October 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Hornell, James

Format

Cabinet Card

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Archive Reference: See Archive Box 178, Envelope WO6/1/13 (Interview with Mrs Rishbeth).

Date: Expedition: A.C. Haddon and his daughter, Kathleen Rishbeth arrived in the Papuan Gulf on October 7th, 1914. They spent two weeks in the Delta Division, the administrative division that covered the western side of the Papuan Gulf before leaving the region for Port Moresby. [JB 06/01/2004]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 09/06/2004]