(Card 1/S) Tekin Valley - Feramin (Sepik), November 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 23

Content Summary:

1 Min men, Tekin Valley, 15-21 November 1938

2-4*-5*-6*-7*-8*-10*-11*-12*-14*-15*-16*-17*-19* Looking west from several locations on the Tekin-Sepik divide, 22-23 November 1938. 4-7 and 10-11 form panoramas; 15-19 may show the distant Telefomin plateau.

20*-21*-22* Sgt Lopangom with Feramin men, c. 26 November 1938. 20 shows Lopangom seeking directions or instructing a youth to look at Taylor's camera; 21-22 show Lopangom placing the youth for the camera to show the youth's initiate headdress. The youth holds salt or shell which Lopangom has paid him from the small bag he holds.

23* Men building a hut, probably Feramin, 26 November 1938

24-25*-26, 28-29* Sepik river at Feramin, 26-29 November 1938. 25-26 28-29 show local men, carriers and patrol packs on the bank.

27* Liwa (Leo) of the Waga, Feramin, 26-29 November 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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