IDNO

P.9476.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Mourina canoe, Calvados chain, from a photograph lent by L.M.S. [London Missionary Society].

“Canoe (waga) of unusual type, Moturinga, near Utian.” (Hornell 1936, p. 256)

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay; Calvados Chain; near Utian; Moturinga [British New Guinea; Mewstone Island; Moturina; Moturinga]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

London Missionary Society

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

London Missionary Society

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Same image published in Haddon, A.C. and J. Hornell, 1936, Canoes of Oceania, (Bishop Museum Publication, Honolulu), Vol. II Fig. 149 with the following caption:
“Canoe (waga) of unusual type, Moturinga, near Utian.”
Related text on p.256 states:
“Many years ago the London Missionary Society lent me a photograph of a remarkable canoe taken some time before at Moturina (Mewstone Island) near Utian (fig. 149). It has the usual deep body of a Panaieti canoe; apparently there are three strakes and a combing, but the whole body is coated over with a light wash. ...” [JD 18/11/2009]