(Card 1/I) Waga, Lagaip and Lai Valleys, July 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 13

Content Summary:

1* Man and boy, Waga Valley, 12 July 1938

2 Man as above.

3*-4* Youth wearing wig, Waga Valley, 12 July 1938

5* Yumbisa area landscape, 12 July 1938

6-7 House, Enga-Waga cultural divide, 12 July 1938

8 House on stilts, 12 July 1938

9 Similar, police wife on step.

10 Karegari swamp, Waga Valley, from northeast (Paui?), 12 July 1938

11-12* Men and a boy at the camp banis (fence), Paui?, 12 July 1938. Karegari swamp in distance.

13 Similar. A policeman is giving a local man salt or girigiri (small cowrie)

14-15 Lagaip Valley from above Biviraka, 15 July 1938

16 Biviraka (=hill, centre), and view down the Lagaip Valley, 15 July 1938

17 Lagaip Valley from near Biviraka, 15 July 1938

18-19 Man and woman in wedding dress, Biviraka area, Lagaip Valley, 16 July 1938

20 Similar, with Mainch of Kobuga near Ogelbeng.

21* Country near Ivai, Lagaip Valley, 16 July 1938

22* Bridge over the Lagaip near present-day Laiagam, 16 July 1938. This bridge is also in Walsh Roll 16/12.

23-25* Lagaip-Lai divide, Ibiliyam area, 16-17 July 1938

26-27*-28 Men at a fortified gate, possibly Kinabulam, 17-18 July 1938

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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