IDNO

P.9477.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Canoe, Teste Island.

Dug-out outrigger canoe (probably of the Masawa type used in the Massim area) being pulled up on a beach. A European man is holding the bolt rope supporting the sail. Four local men are in the canoe. Another outrigger canoe is behind, with a tender (rowing boat) pulled up further along the beach. Two cutters (sailing boat with a bow-sprit) are moored off shore. Two rocky islands are at the background of frame. [Sergio Jarillo 23/11/2006]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Massim; Teste Island [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lindt, John William

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

1885

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Description: Three man (including one European) seem to be holding the woven sail in order to display it for the camera, as the sail is usually deployed only off-shore for navigation purposes. [Sergio Jarillo 23/11/2006]

Publication: Image published in Lindt, John William 1887, ‘Picturesque New Guinea. With an historical introduction and supplementary chapters on the manners and customs of the Papuans; accompanied with fifty full-page autotype illustrations from negatives of portraits from life and groups and landscapes from nature’. London: Longmans, Green, and co; Plate XLIII. with caption “‘On the Beach,’ Teste Island, Kissack’s Trading Canoe; Bell Rock and Cliffy Island in the distance.” Referenced p. 84. [Sergio Jarillo 23/11/2006]