IDNO

D.43984.HNL

Description

Drawing of a "Section of the hull of a Manokwari outrigger, showing method of lashing the boom inboard; a. gunwale of soft wood; b. weather-board made of four palm leaf-stalks (1919: 47)."

Place

Oceania Melanesia; SE Asia; New Guinea; Indonesia; Papua Province; West Papua; Cenderawasih Bay; Manokwari [Dutch New Guinea; North Netherlands New Guinea; Irian Jaya; Geelvink Bay]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Hornell, James

Date

circa 1936

Collection Name

Hornell Collection

Source

Hornell, Charlotte (Mrs)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The drawing was found in a box now numbered C144/7/ which was in a cardboard box numbered C144/ by the transcriber.

Publication: Image published in 'The Outrigger Canoes of Indonesia' by James Hornell. Madras Fisheries Department, Bulletin No. 12. Administration Report, 1918-19. A Statistical Analysis at Madras, 1919, p.47 and captioned: "Fig. 6.— Section of the hull of a Manokwari outrigger, showing method of lashing the boom inboard; a. gunwale of soft wood; b. weather-board made of four palm leaf-stalks."
Related text on p.47 notes: "The hull is an ordinary slabsided double-ended dugout. End pieces, ornamented with elaborate carving in the better built ones, are fitted on at each end, and between them the sides are raised with a weather-boarding made of several superposed rows of the leaf-stalks of the sago-palm, finished off with a squared wooden bar forming a rude gunwale; the whole structure is secured in position by vertical pegging (Fig. 6)." [JD 27/02/2023

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 3/4/2008]