IDNO

T.132709.MST

Description

On Strathern's listing: Mope road just below the haus lain. (lain = pidgin for ‘line’, as in houses laid out in a line or row or square, as encouraged by missions (less so by the administration), to form a neat-looking village. At this period new converts to Christianity would build their houses in a line. People did not live in villages before.).

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Western Highlands Province; Mbukl

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Strathern, Marilyn (later Prof., Dame)

Collector / Expedition

Date

October 1965

Collection Name

Strathern Collection

Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof., Dame)

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.1326701.MST - N.132722.MST were identified by Marilyn Strathern as Set 38.

Context: haus lain = lain is a Pidgin term for ‘line’, as in houses laid out in a line or row or square, as encouraged by missions (less so by the administration), to form a neat-looking village. At this period new converts to Christianity would build their houses in a line. People did not live in villages before. [Strathern's Glossary word document, JD 4/24/2017]

A grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program supported the documentation and preservation of the Strathern photographic collection. [JD 6/11/2017]