(Card 11/I ) Kuta, ? June 1939

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Item 31

Content Summary:

This roll was taken at Kuta, the Leahys' gold lease south of Mt Hagen. Taylor did not visit Kuta in 1939. He probably returned the camera to its owner, Mick Leahy.

1 Ted Taylor, DO Morobe, surveys the country north towards Mt Hagen.

2 Ted Taylor and an Eastern Highlands (Bena?) girl.

3 Girl in above.

4-13 Highlands women in European dress. 4-5 and 10-12 show a mother apparently with a mixed race baby.

14 Local boys, probably servants.

15 Mother and baby.

16-23 Eastern Highlands men, probably Kuta lease workers, in singsing dress.

24 Ted Taylor (l.), Mick Leahy and Mick's dog Snowy.

25 Mick Leahy (l.) and Ted Taylor.

26-27 Ted Taylor and Snowy watch a local singsing group approach along Kuta ridge.

28-33 Ted Taylor in a kama (dance ground) on the Kuta - Hagen track.

34 Ted Taylor on the track approaching Gormis (Mt Hagen)

Note: Due to its large size, MS 9218/1/1/32, a miscellaneous photo listed under File 5, is stored at the rear of File 2.

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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