IDNO

LS.124553.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Games. String figures. 23.13.
Kathleen learning string figures from Mambare R., Constable at Govt. House, Central Div:, B.N.G."

Kathleen Rishbeth, a European woman wearing a long dress and pith helmet, sits learning how to make a cat-cradle design. Five members of the Papuan Constabulary Force sit cross-legged on the ground around the woman showing her cat-cradle designs. The men wear dark shirts and skirts. Each wears a belt on which are various leather pouches. On the belt of one man ammunition is visible. Behind the gathering is a pre-fabricated house raised on posts. [Joshua Bell 9/6/2004, description from record P.47880.ACH2, JD 27/08/2020]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Central Division; Southeast Coast; Port Moresby

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Kathleen Haddon (later Rishbeth)

Photographer

?Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort and Haddon, Kathleen (later Rishbeth) [Expedition to New Guinea, 16 September - 20 November 1914]

Date

2 November 1914

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionKathleen Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: In Kathleen Haddon's unpublished manuscript 'An English Girl in New Guinea', 1914, p.109 is the following extract:
"After lunch Governor Murray very kindly ordered half-a-dozed of his police to come and teach me cat’s cradles, for these men are drawn from different parts of the country and I was thus able to learn figures that I should not have seen otherwise. I think that they considered it rather beneath their dignity, but still they kindly condescended to instruct me and I learnt some interesting figures." [JD 10/21/2014]

Expedition: A.C. Haddon and his daughter, Kathleen Rishbeth arrived in the Papuan Gulf on October 7th, 1914. They spent two weeks in the Delta Division, the administrative division that covered the western side of the Papuan Gulf before leaving the region for Port Moresby. [JB 9/6/2004]

Publication: Image published in McKenzie, Robyn, 2020, '"Such intimate relations": on the process of collecting string figures and the paradigm of participant observation fieldwork'. [JD 08/04/2021]