IDNO

P.9479.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Model of Massim canoe Pt. Moresby Mus.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Haddon, Kathleen (later Rishbeth); or Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort and Haddon, Kathleen (later Rishbeth) [Expedition to New Guinea, 16 September - 20 November 1914]

Date

2 November 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.108 for Monday 2nd November, is the following extract:
“The following morning lives in my memory as being the most uncomfortable time in the whole trip-that is, on land. My father and I arranged to visit the museum and take rubbings and photographs of some of the specimens there. It was a boiling hot day, the little corrugated iron museum was situated on a bare hillock in the town, and it had been shut up for some time. Never have I been in such a hot place, it almost took my breath away, and although we had some of the specimens taken outside in order to photograph them it was not very much better there." [JD 10/28/2014]

Related Object: The model of a canoe is now probably in the collections of the National Museum of Australia, possibly reference 1985.0339.1247, with the following information: "Title: Model canoe
Physical description: A wooden model of a single outrigger canoe, with an elliptic hull painted red, white, and black, and a wooden platform between the hull and the outrigger.
Type: Models
Collection: Papuan Official collection
Dimensions: L 1450mm x H 375mm x W 235mm
Material: Wood, Cane, Plant fibre, Plant leaves, Pigment
Associated place: Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania." [Source: https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/icons/images/kaui2/index.html#/home?usr=CE, JD 25/04/2022]