IDNO

T.68634.MFL

Description

A different view of the ?same village shown in T.68633. The houses are made from bush materials, and their roofs made from thatched sago palm leaves. One house under construction on the far left. Two coconut palms also visible. Photograph taken in ?Maio village, upper Sepik area, west of Ambunti station, or alternatively in Sio village, on the Wogamush river, a tributary of the Sepik river. Sio village is located the south-west of Ambunti station and the people there speak a language called Bahinemo. [Andrew Moutu 19/02/04]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; East Sepik; Near Ambunti; Sepik River; ?Maio; Wogamush River; ?Sio

Cultural Affliation

?Kwoma; ?Bahinemo

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Summer Institute of Linguistics

Date

10 June 1967

Collection Name

Macfarlane Collection

Source

Macfarlane, Alan

Format

Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.67481 to T.68999 and T.74937 to T.74998 were found in the box now numbered C494/.
T.68624 to T.68639 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/59/.

These photographs were probably taken during a field research trip by researchers from the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Among the members of the expedition are Patricia K Townsend, William H Townsend and T Wayne Dye. An initial report on the research is given by Dye, Townsend and Townsend (1968) [Mark Elliott 04/03/04].

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 27/02/04].