Miscellaneous photographs of Western Papua New Guinea

Groups include: choir, possibly at Daru. People include: house boys, Torres Straits; Mrs [Reginald] Bartlett and baby on board Malara; western man and child on beach; Pira, native pastor, in front of his house at Koara; girls at Orokolo; Dirimu girls; man from Fly River; bushmen from villages north...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 10
Date(s) of creation: c.1890 - c.1940
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.19.10.10.034
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 10
callnumber CWM/LMS/19/10/10/034
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/19/10/10/034
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/19/10/10/034
prefix_number 034
scb_previous_numbers All numbered in subject sequences comprising a) missionaries and church work; b) educational; c) general - types; d) home life and occupations; e) manners and customs; f) landscape; g) Papua Central (Chatterton photographs); h) crafts: i) miscellaneous; j) documentary; k) impact of civilization.
title Miscellaneous photographs of Western Papua New Guinea
scb_date_creation c.1890 - c.1940
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 20 silver gelatin and printing out paper prints.
format Archive
description Groups include: choir, possibly at Daru. People include: house boys, Torres Straits; Mrs [Reginald] Bartlett and baby on board Malara; western man and child on beach; Pira, native pastor, in front of his house at Koara; girls at Orokolo; Dirimu girls; man from Fly River; bushmen from villages north of Dirimu; man at Orokolo. Events include: Christmas feast. Activities include: children and villagers rowing canoes; house building. Places or buildings include: missionary's wife on steps of first house at Dirimu; mission house and Tamate memorial church, Darnley Island. Also includes: Niue sailing boat; the Oboro Gama or drum of the spirits of the dead, ?Basai. Pictures taken by/received from: Edward Baxter Riley [in Papua 1899 - 1929]
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission
scb_file_number 34
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0019.0010.0010.00034