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

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 5

Content Summary:

1* View c. east over the wireless tent and some carriers' huts, 27 May 1938

2*-5*-6* Hoiyevia strip before grass was laid on it; 3-6 show Huli men approaching, 27 May 1938

7-11 Men outside Taylor's tent, 29-30 May 1938. The two smoking bamboo pipes are Ivaia (l.) and a man who later met Taylor in the Waga Valley: see 12 (Card 1/K)

34-36. Possibly he is Hilu, the priest. 10-11 show Ivaia and Mainch.

12 Hoiyevia strip, possibly with a ground drawing in foreground, 29-30 May 1938

13*-14 Baraka of Mt Hagen, the mascot, with drum, 29-30 May 1938

15-16*-17 Hilu?, 29-30 May 1938. See caption for 7-11. The grass covered strip at rear.

18*-19 Ivaia, 29-30 May 1938

20*-21* Huli man, possibly Gumaiba, 29-30 May 1938

22-23*-25*-26*-27* Work parties tramping down the strip, 29-30 May 1938. 26-27 how food sellers at the banis (fence)

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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