IDNO

T.68686.MFL

Description

Patricia Townsend, standing with her back to the camera and wearing a [?locally] woven hat with a high crown and a wide brim, beneath the shelter of a residential house. Beyond her a woman, wearing a striped shirt, is working on a mat pounding sago with a stone adze. A section of sago palm trunk is lying on the ground to the left. Scattered around beneath the house are a ?canoe, a fishing net, a paddle, a sago basket and other household utensils. In the foreground, on the right, a young boy is looking into the camera. To his right is a young man wearing white shorts [who also appears in the Yareno images - T.68669, T.68675 and T.68676 – ?possibly employed as a guide] [Mark Elliott 09/03/04]

The piece of sago stump may have been brought into the village by men who dragged it through water, otherwise, the sago may have been uprooted and brought to the village by the river. Next to the boy and the man behind the European woman is a fish trap. Swagup people speak a variant of the Bahinemo language [Andrew Moutu 20/04/02]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; East Sepik Province; Swagup

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Patricia K. Townsend

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

15 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.68682 to T.68705 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/62/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Mark Elliott 09/03/04].