(Card 1/U) Strickland River - Tekin Valley?, October-November 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 22

Content Summary:

(for crossing location see map in The sky travellers)

1-2 Distant view of Strickland Gorge, 27-28 October 1938

3-4*-5* Penis gourd men from west of the Strickland with laplap men from east of it, Fugili area, 28 October 1938

6* Strickland River country, 1 November 1938

7-8*-10*-11*-12*-13*-14*-16*-17 Strickland bridge, 7 November 1938. 7-8 show the remnants of Black's July bridge, 9 the view upstream from 7-8, 10-17 the repaired bridge and the line crossing, 13 carriers helping a fallen man

18-19*-20* Strickland Gorge from above west bank, 8-10 November 1938

21*-22*-23 Looking west or northwest from above, 8-10 November 1938. 23 may be the Bak-Tekin divide from the south.

24*-25*-26*-27*-28*-33*-35*-36*-37* Min men, Bak or Tekin Valleys, mid-November 1938. 1988 research suggested 33 and 37 were boys at Kunanap, Tekin Valley.

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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