IDNO

LS.120597.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "B.N.G. S.E.
Rossel Is. Ground-house, "Yebewede gmomo".
(original type, somewhat improved)." [manuscript in ink]

"Simplest types if houses, Rossell island, Louisiades.
The yebewede gmomo a ground with three median forked piles to support the ridge-pole and a raised platform on which the inmates shape. The difference of this type from the former seems to be due to the influence of the pile-dwelling with a turtle-back roof which occurs in other parts of the southeastern Massim area (see photograph [P.141774.CHB])." [Case Handbook caption for P.141777.CHB]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay Province; Louisiade Archipelago; Yela [British New Guinea; Rossel Island]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Armstrong, Wallace Edwin

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1919 - 1921

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Photographer: The photographer was previously recorded as '?Armstrong, Wallace Edwin', but the annotation 'QF' on the catalogue card has now been identified as used by W. E. Armstrong. The Photographer and Date fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 29/1/2013]

Publication: Image published in Armstrong, W.E., 1928. Rossel Island: An Ethnological Study (Cambridge University Press), plate XIVa, with the following caption:
"Ground-house, yebewede gmomo." [JD 2/5/2013]

Related Archive: Image included in OA2/11/2 'Handbook Manuscript', chapter 'Cases 34 - 36. Massim District', pl. 1, and captioned: "These photograph were taken and presented to the Museum by W.E. Armstron, M.A.
7 & 8. Simplest types if houses, Rossell island, Louisiades.
8. The yebewede gmomo a ground with three median forked piles to support the ridge-pole and a raised platform on which the inmates shape. The difference of this type from the former seems to be due to the influence of the pile-dwelling with a turtle-back roof which occurs in other parts of the southeastern Massim area (see photograph 5)." [JD 28/08/2018]