IDNO

P.9635.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Lakatoi at Tari-Purari, New Guinea. Note curious open fronted canoe, barge dubu house at back.” [Typed Text]

View of large multi-hulled canoe (lakatoi) with sidewalls made of plant leaves by the side of a river. This ship has come from the Port Moresby region to trade clay pots for sago. Two men sit in the front of the vessel, and several pots can be seen at the canoe’s back. Two small canoes with three standing men holding paddles rest next to the lakatoi. Two men, who face the camera, paddle another large canoe down the middle of the river. The man in the front of this canoe wears the clothing of a village constable. On the bank behind the canoes is a large ravi (men’s house). The bank is covered in coconut palm and breadfruit trees.

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Papuan Gulf; Purari Delta; Iare Village [British New Guinea; Iari]

Cultural Affliation

I’ai; Purari Delta

Named Person

Photographer

Broughton, Vera (Lady); [Official Photographer for Expedition]

Collector / Expedition

Moyne (Lord) (Also known as Guinness, Walter Edward) [A Journey in Lands between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, 1935 - 1936]

Date

November 1935 - February 1936

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness (Lord)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Tari-Purari is a mis-spelling or transcription mistake, and should be Iari-Purari.

Lord Moyne (1936: 64) comments that while in the Purari Delta “we saw two lakatois which had come from Port Moresby...each consisted of twelve canoes lashed together so as to make a kind of square raft on which shelters of matting were fixed...”

Lady Vera Broughton accompanied Lord E.W. Moyne on an expedition to the island of New Guinea from 1935 to 1936. During the trip the Lady Broughton took 275 photographs and the expedition collected numerous ethnographic objects and zoological specimens. The majority of the ethnographic objects were donated to the British Museum, with duplicates being sent to Cambridge and Oxford. The photographic collection is held by the Moyne family while a select range of images have been donated to Cambridge and Oxford. See Lord Moyne (1936) Walkabout: A Journey in Lands Between The Pacific & Indian Oceans. London: William Heinemann Ltd.

This catalogue record was updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Joshua Bell 06/01/2004]