IDNO

P.9507.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe at Daui-Suau.” [Typed Text]

"Canoe, Delami. ‘Fish eating bird’ theme.”
“Bonabona I. [Island]." [Armstrong's? caption on P.59694.ACH2]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay Province; Fife Bay; Suau-Daui; ?Bonabona Island [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

Related Archive: Image probably included in OA2/11/2 'Handbook Manuscript', chapter 'Cases 34 - 36. Massim District', pl. 22, and captioned: "These photograph were taken and presented to the Museum by W.E. Armstron, M.A.
24. 22. Bow end of a Suau canoe, amuiua waga.
The solid anterior end of the dugout extends for a long distance beyond the body of the canoe. The breakwater, baragai, is carved in the local manner (see case 34) and is ornamented with Ovulum shells. The end-erection, taburi, is also ornamented with Ovulum shells, a typical finial, lili, is lashed on to the flat tang. There is a larged [sic large] carved bird on the outrigger. Each attachment of the float to the booms consists of two pairs of sticks (or connectives) which cross under the boom - an arrangement which occurs throughout the Massim area." [JD 28/08/2018]