(Card 1/Q) Feramin - Telefomin, November-December 1938

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 24

Content Summary:

1-2 Sepik river at Feramin, c.27 November 1938

3 Spirit house, Feramin?, c.27 November 1938

4-6* Feramin watch house, 1-2 December 1938

7*-8*-14 'No Man's Land: country between Feramin and Telefomin, 1-2 December 1938; 8 shows a distant carrier line.

15-16 Telefol watch house, Sol River area, 2 December 1938

17*. Telefomin plateau (distant) from the east, 2 December 1938

18*-23*-25*-27*-28 Telefol people and carriers, Telefomin Base Camp, 3-6 December 1938.

Shows parts of Black's camp; marfum initiate youths; and the good relations between carriers and villagers.

29-33*-34*-35*-36 Telefolip village, 7 December 1938. 29 shows the rear of the 'cult' house as seen on approaching the village; 30-31 villagers; 32-33 and 35 police and villagers; 34 and 36 the village from in front of the 'cult' house.

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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