IDNO

T.68963.MFL

Description

An Oksapmin man tending a sweet potato garden while wearing a bilum (woven bag) on his back. [JD 03/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Sandaun Province; Telefomin District; Oksapmin [West Sepik Province]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

20 June 1968

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.68945 to T.68968 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/74/.

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group with the caption: "Another unknown and/or incorrectly labelled photo from the Macfarlane Collection, University of Cambridge. This one shows a man harvesting sweet potatoes and is dated 20 June 1968 and labelled "?Eastern Highlands Province; Oksapmin". Oksapmin is definitely not in the Eastern Highlands. Other photos in this sequence with the same date mention Yoliapi gardens."
216 Likes; [not sharable] 17 Comments, including information that Oksapmin is in Telefomin District, Sandaun Province (historically West Sepik Province).
"[For location a useful reference is] Gerard Ward and David Lea .. An Atlas of Papua and New Guinea, 1970, Longman and University of PNG. Maps 1, 2 a, b, c, d show the districts as they were declared prior to independence. The Sepik district was split into 'east' and 'west' in 1966, also when Chimbu was separated from Eastern Highlands. At a later time Enga was separated from Western Highlands. Much more recently the Southern Highlands had Hela carved from it and Jiwalka was carved from Western Highlands (by Robert Crittenden)." [JD 27/07/2022]