(Card 1/Y) Porgera - Logaiyu River, September-October 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 20

Content Summary:

1 Mt Kumbipara dominating country west of Porgera Valley, 18-23 September 1938

2-5 The line crossing a river, September 1938

6 Porgera area country?, September 1938?

7-11 Ipili men, some wearing bullock horn wigs, another bird of paradise plumes, Porgera-Paiela area, September 1938

12 Ipili men watch carriers cutting branches with tomahawks, September 1938

13-15 Visitors to patrol camp(s) in the bush, September 1938

16-18 Crossing a river on a fragile bridge [Pagubeia river?], 28 September 1938?

19-23 Boy outside house, Pori river area?, October 1938

24-28 Pori mountains?, October 1938

29-30 A local guide, carrying European and local shoulder bags, Pori mountains?, October 1938

31*-34*-37 Crossing the Logaiyu (now the Pori) by flying fox, 10 October 1938. Taylor nearly drowned when he fell in here.

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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