IDNO

LS.120826.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Melanesia.
Mortlock Is.
5 men, standing." [manuscript in ink]

Five boys standing in a line on a beach, facing in different directions. Each wears a knee-length cloth, [?mefau]. Two of the boys are wearing a flower in their hair above the left ear. The same five boys are depicted, in the same poses, but standing closer together, in Chinnery 1927:71, plate 45, captioned "Mortlock types"., from record P.56342.ACH2, JD 27/6/2012]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Mortlock Islands; Tauu Islands; Kapeiatu

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Chinnery, Ernest William Pearson

Collector / Expedition

Date

5 March 1925

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Chinnery, Ernest William Pearson

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Date: These photographs were taken on a voyage of the Government vessel, the SS Franklin, between January and March 1925. Chinnery records (1927: 67) that his party arrived in the Mortlocks on Thursday, 5th March, and left the following day for the Tasman Islands. [Mark Elliott 26/03/04]

Bibliographical Reference: Chinnery (1927:68-70) writes that the inhabitants of the Mortlock Islands (also known as Tau-u or Marqueen Islands) lived on the island of Kapeiatu, and were indentured to a Mrs. Calder, who owned the Islands and ran a plantation on them. The inhabitants referred to themselves as Taku. [Mark Elliott 26/03/04]

Source: These photographs were donated by E.W.P. Chinnery. It is not certain whether these were photographed by him as well. [Mark Elliott 26/03/04]