(Card 1/F) Hoiyevia Base Camp, May 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 4

Content Summary:

1-2* Huli man in front of a sheet to show his wig, 11-14 May 1938

3-4*-5* Carriers lengthening the strip, south east end, 11-14 May 1938

6* Huli men and boys meet police and carriers at the camp banis (fence), 11-24 May 1938

7-8*-10*-11* Huli men and boys at the banis, 11-24 May 1938

12-14 Mainch, Constable Karo's wife, outside the police married quarters, 11-24 May 1938

15*-16 A wig maker who came to Taylor's tent to maintain wigs he had sold, 23-24 May 1938

17*-18*-19* Wigged Huli men with pan pipes, 23-27 May 1938

20*-21* Huli men and boys, one inside the banis amid kaukau (sweet potato) debris, playing pan pipes, 23-27 May 1938

22*-23 Constable Kenai on duty outside the wireless tent, 23-27 May 1938

24-25 Mainch (r.) and another police wife, 27 May 1938

26-27 Mainch, 27 May 1938

28* Huli men and boys, 27 May 1938. The tall man, centre, is Ivaia from east of Hoiyevia, first to befriend the patrol.

29 Food sellers line the banis, 27 May 1938

30-32*-35 Watching the supply plane circling, 27 May 1938. 30-32 look c. east over the wireless tent and some carriers' huts; 33-35 look c. west over police on the strip; 34-35 show stacks of casuarina firewood.

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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