IDNO

LS.120598.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "B.N.G. S.E.
Rossel Is. House of piles, "Sele gmomo".
(more later & more elaborate type than no. 58)." [manuscript in ink]

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 XIVb, with the following caption:
"Pile-dwelling, gele gmomo." [JD 2/5/2013]

Publication: Image published in Shaw, Ben, 2014. 'The archaeology of Rossel Island, Massim, Papua New Guinea: Towards a prehistory of the Louisiade Archipelago' (Australian National University, Canberrra), p.83 and captioned: "Figure 4.5: Yebewede gmomo  (top) and Gele gmomo (bottom) houses on Rossel Island, 1921. From
Armstrong (1928)." [JD 24/03/2021]