(Card 1/A) Ogelbeng Base Camp - Gormis (Mt Hagen) Patrol Post, March 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 1

Content Summary:

1 Wireless mast, carriers' huts and Europeans' tents, Ogelbeng, March 1938

2 House and huts rented from Ogelbeng Lutheran Mission, Ogelbeng, March 1938

3-4*Taylor, police and carriers check loads, Ogelbeng, 5-6 March 1938

5*-6* Bugler Gershon of Nodup near Rabaul calls the patrol to start; in background the mission house, Ogelbeng, 5-7 March 1938

7 The distant patrol lines up in front of the mission, Ogelbeng, 5-7 March 1938

8*-9 Bugler Gershon calls as the patrol lines up, Ogelbeng, 5-7 March 1938; the theodolite stand (to measure a base line) is at right.

10-11 The patrol ready to leave; Taylor, Black and Lopangom near its head, Gormis, 9 March 1938

12-13 The patrol leaving, Gormis, 9 March 1938

14-15 Similar: Taylor, Black and Walsh head the line.

16-19 Similar, without Europeans.

20 Similar: Taylor and Walsh in foreground.

21-23*-24 Similar: Taylor, Black and Walsh in foreground.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Taylor Papers were donated to the National Library by Bill Gammage, on behalf of Taylor's nephew Russ Robinson, in 1998. The core of the collection is comprised of records Taylor brought to Sydney in 1940 to prepare his report on the Hagen-Sepik Patrol. This material spans the period 1932-40, though Taylor also drew on other records relating to the Patrol in his assessment. On completing the report Taylor passed the records to his nephew, Russ Robinson, who in turn added papers to the collection. In 1986, at Taylor's request the records were lent by Robinson to Bill Gammage for his book about the Hagen-Sepik Patrol, entitled The sky travellers: journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 (Melbourne University Press, 1998). Gammage added further Taylor records to the original body of papers, principally acquired from John Black and Ian Downs.

Names:

Jim Taylor

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