Photographs relating to the Hagen-Sepik patrol

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Box 3
Component identifier:
File 8
Content Summary:

1. Two 1988 negatives each, of photos 4-5 and 8-9 below.

2. “First landing at Wabag. Junkers W7”. The first landing was on 8 August 1938. Downs’ caption refers to his first landing on 31 August.

3. “Junkers W7”, on Wabag strip, c.31 August 1938. [Edwards]

4. A singsing to open Mt Hagen strip, March 1938. [Edwards]

5. “Junkers on Hagen Drome”, August 1938. [Edwards]

6. Pendeyani, the Li-ink fight leader, “tells the mob to get going to try us out”, Wabag peace conference, 1 September 1938, after Bugler Gershon and some Li-ink men were killed. In fact Pendeyani was speaking for peace (+ negative).

7. Enga man at Wabag peace conference, 1 September 1938. He wears a tin lid pendant (negative only).

8. The Wabag peace conference, 1 September 1938. The Europeans are (l. to r.) Edwards (and his dog `Nigger’), Ted Taylor (D.O. Morobe), pilot Tommy O’Dea.

9. The Wabag peace conference, 1 September 1938. The Europeans are (l. to r.) Edwards, Downs, police officer W.O. Wallace.

10. Wabag camp, September 1938, showing the strip built on old kaukau (sweet potato) gardens (+ negative).

11. Ian Downs at Chimbu Patrol Post (later Kundiawa), 1939 (+ negative).

12. Repairs to the Mt Hagen road, c.1952-55 (+ negative).

Names:
Ian Downs

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