IDNO

P.9473.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Typical sailing canoe of the D’entrecasteaux type.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Massim; D'Entrecasteaux Islands; Trobrainds [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Armstrong, Wallace Edwin

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1919 - 1921

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Armstrong, Wallace Edwin, Reports / by W.E. Armstrong and by resident magistrates of the territory, with indices. (Port Moresby : s.n., 1922?) [JD 7/9/2009]

Related Archive: Image probably included in OA2/11/2 'Handbook Manuscript', chapter 'Cases 34 - 36. Massim District', pl. 24, and captioned: "These photograph were taken and presented to the Museum by W.E. Armstron, M.A.
26. 24. A typical sailing canoe of the D'Entecasteaux rig.
The platform on the outrigger is as long as the body of the canoe. The breakwater, bodawa, is characterised by a conventionalised human figure or figures in the centre of its upper margin (see case 36). The end-erection vagavaga, is a rather small more or less semi-circular board the motive of which is a bird's head (see case 36). The mast is eccentric and carries a triangular sail.
This type of canoe has recently become the common form in the Trobriands where it is termed masawa. The photograph is that of a Trobrainds masawa." [JD 28/08/2018]