IDNO

P.9511.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Canoe. Utian, (Brooker I), Calvados chain.” [Typed Text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Massim; Milne Bay; Calvados Chain; Utian [British New Guinea; Brooker Island]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Forbes, Henry Ogg (Dr)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1885

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Biographical Information: “Forbes, Henry Ogg (1851 - 1932)
Born: 30 January 1851, Drumblade, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died: 27 October 1932, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Occupation: Explorer and Natural history collector
Summary: Henry Ogg Forbes was appointed as meteorological observer in Port Moresby after a number of ill-fated expeditions in New Guinea. He was later Director of the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand 1890-93 and consulting director on museums in Liverpool 1911-32.” [Source: Encyclopedia of Australian Sience, www.eoas.info/biogs/P000044b.htm, JD 10/9/2010]