Album of photographs, mainly of Port Moresby by William George Lawes

Groups include: [Frederick William] Walker with indigenous group outside house, South Cape; Mrs Lawes, "granny", [Harry Moore] Dauncey and Walker outside Lawes' mission house, Port Moresby; girls, Port Moresby; Ruatoka and family; Walker, Dauncey, [Albert] Pearse and [Charles William] Abel; students...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/19/10/01/004 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 3
Date(s) of creation: c.1870 - c.1890
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.19.10.01.004
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 3
callnumber CWM/LMS/19/10/01/004
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/19/10/01/004
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/19/10/01/004
prefix_number 004
title Album of photographs, mainly of Port Moresby by William George Lawes
scb_date_creation c.1870 - c.1890
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 62 albumen and printing out paper prints mounted on 26 album pages.
format Archive
description Groups include: [Frederick William] Walker with indigenous group outside house, South Cape; Mrs Lawes, "granny", [Harry Moore] Dauncey and Walker outside Lawes' mission house, Port Moresby; girls, Port Moresby; Ruatoka and family; Walker, Dauncey, [Albert] Pearse and [Charles William] Abel; students' wives; South Sea Island teachers; Mrs Lawes' boys and girls; Mrs Lawes' orphans; wedding party; congregarion outside church, Port Moresby. People include: portraits of mother and infant in bag, Harieta, "grannie", Go-ani, Kago, Heni, Puka, New Guinea teachers and their sons, Lifu man with his New Guinea wife, Port Moresby boys and "belles", Ko-au chief. Activities include: women taking pottery to lakatoi in small boat [round image with fern decoration]; girls carrying water jugs. Places or buildings include: view of Elevera island with indigenous family group in foreground [Port Moresby; village scene [possibly Hanuabada] Port Moresby; [James] Chalmers 's mission house and English church, Port Moresby; Matapaila; Kaile marine village; Pearse's house, Kerepunu; Fairfax Harbour; mission house, 1875; sacred platform, Rigo; mission buildings, native village and government house, Port Moresby; church at Kabadi [with Timateo, Dauncey etc]; village scene, Matulaila; houses at Morabi [Delena]; church at Lealea [Port Moresby]; Mrs Lawes' cookhouse. Also includes: lakatoi [trading canoe]; S S "Merrie England" mission boat; tree houses and lugger "Niue". Pictures taken by/received from: William George Lawes, distributed commercially by Henry King, Sydney.
scb_access_status Open
scb_file_number 4
note Some photographs pasted over others on pages of album
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0019.0010.0001.00004

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