Dwellings - Papua New Guinea

Date: 1888

By: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, 1845-

Reference: B-075-031

Description: A house on stilts with a thatched roof curving up to poles at each end. Several other such houses can be seen beyond a low fence to the left. There are ladders leading to two doors in the nearest house, and a man standing in front. Another figure is standing to the right, beside sea and close to a tree surrounded by a low circular seat. A pig is in the foreground. The name Heath Island appears to be no longer in use. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 282 x 465 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane auction, 3 September, 1971. (With 8 other sketches - B-075-025/031)

Date: 1824 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Duperrey, Louis-Isidore, 1786-1865

Reference: C-082-076

Description: A plan view of two multi-room houses on a wooden platform above water. A ramp leads to land along the base of the view with plan views of palm trees and other trees and shrubs Redrawn by Chazal from original by Duperrey & etched by Tardieu for publication as plate 35 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). The associated watercolour by Chazal, held at C-082-075, bears the inscription 'A Chazal d'apres le dessin du Comt. Duperrey' [Antoine Chazal after the drawing by Commander Duperrey] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 330 x 250 mm on sheet 500 x 340 mm

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-073

Description: Shows a New Guinean building with thatched roof on a platform jutting into the water. There are two people on the edge of the platform and one person on a canoe alongside it. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 34 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Other Titles - New Guinea. House of the inhabitants of Port Dorey [Translation] Inscriptions: Recto - A Chazal Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 250 x 380 mm

Date: 1875

Reference: A-124-008

Description: Shows New Guineans paddling an outrigger canoe, a village with steep conical dwellings on wooden piles on the shoreline in the background. An armed man stands on the outrigger platform of the canoe and further people are visible in the village. Other information: an illustration to the account of the voyage of H M S Challenger to the Pacific in 1875. Location: Humboldt Bay, a name no longer in use, is on the north coast of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, about 50 km west of the border between Indonesia's Papua and the country of Papua New Guinea. Its name was changed to Yos Sudarso Bay in the 1960s Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 90 x 165 mm

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Duperrey, Louis-Isidore, 1786-1865

Reference: C-082-075

Description: A plan view of two multi-room houses on a wooden platform with a ramp leading from water to land. The land area includes a plan view of palms and other trees and shrubs, along the bottom of the page Redrawn by Chazal from original by Duperrey & etched by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). A copy of the related aquatint is held at C-082-076 Other Titles - New Guinea. Plan of a house of the inhabitants of Port [Doreri] Dorey. Antoine Chazal after the drawing of Commander Duperrey [Translation] Inscriptions: Recto - A Chazal d'apres le dessin du Comt. Duperrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 380 mm on sheet 250 x 380 mm

Date: 1831 - 1827 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Vanderburch, H, active 1833

Reference: B-052a-015

Description: Published in: Dumont D'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Paris, 1830-1835. Atlas, v.2, plate 122. Other Titles - View of the village of Aiambo on the heights of Dorey [translation] Extended Title - Plate from: Dumont d'Urville, J S C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas historique. Vol 2, plate 122 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 260 x 415 mm

Date: 1888

By: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, 1845-

Reference: B-075-028

Description: A tree house in the fork of a large tree, with a flight of steps leading up to it. A man is seated in the hut. A row of posts in the ground beyond the tree-hut and another dwelling at ground level in the distance. The scene is in a bay. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 292 x 477 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane auction, 3 September, 1971. (With 8 other sketches - B-075-025/031)

Date: 1955-1958

By: Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001; Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012

Reference: PAColl-7907

Description: Photographs of scenes in Fiji, Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Central Australia, taken between 1955-1957 when Bruce Broadhead was employed by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Also includes photographs taken at the South Pole when he was the broadcasting representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition over the summer of 1957-1958, and interviewed Edmund Hillary and Vivian Fuchs. The photographs were collected for 'Nothing much to do' and each has a caption. Slides at PAColl-7940. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Margaret Alington, Karori, Wellington, in October 2002. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-7553 : Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001 : Nothing much to do..

Date: 1824 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854; LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-046

Description: At the top, solid houses of the type usually seen further West in Papua New Guinea, built on a base of stone with low doors. An interior plan shows planks inside for beds. There are flowering shrubs growing outside the buildings. Further down the page is a simple shelter, with a cooking fire burning, a larger shelter and another with a conical roof showing some damage to the thatch. A drawing from Duperrey's 1824-1826 voyage to the Pacific. Copied by Chazal in Paris, from a drawing by LeJeune, the artist who accompanied Duperrey. 'Likiliki' in Pidgin means small and may have been the name given to the French for a small village. There appears to be no modern place called Likiliki in New Ireland Other Titles - New Ireland [New Guinea]. Plan and elevations of houses of Likiliki. a. Thick planks serving as beds. Hearth. Fishing shelter. House in ruins Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 369 x 245 mm

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1302

Description: Comprises Awara, a Memoir, 288pp, annotated, maps. Awara means `All's well' in the Wedau language. Gives an account of Gill's time with the Anglican Mission in Papua; includes descriptions of Papuan customes and houses, and an account of the mission during the Japanese occupation of PNG during World War II. Also, three short stories set in Papua by Gill, under his pseudonym, Gaspar King, and correspondence between Gill and Nancy Lutton, 1976-1980. Source of title - Transcribed Cecil Gill worked as an Anglican medical missionary in Papua 1926-1933. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2008

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-057

Description: A New Guinean river scene showing two canoes in the water, a dwelling, trees and mountains in the background Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 250 x 380 mm

Date: [ca 1889-1900]

From: Crawford, R J, fl 1961 :Photographs of Samoa and New Guinea

By: Davis, John, -1893; Lawes, William George, 1839-1907

Reference: PAColl-4310-1

Description: Contains photographs relating to the work of the London Missionary Society in Samoa and British New Guinea (Papua New Guinea). Taken by unknown photographers and by John Davis of Samoa and Missionary Reverend William George Lawes of Port Moresby between 1889 and 1900. Several of the prints taken by Lawes are embossed with 'Henry King Photo Sydney'. Photographs of: Malietoa Laupepa, also captioned "this is the father of the Malietoa who died recently"; "Tamasese the rebel chief"; the exterior of the new Malua Jubilee Hall opened on December 8th and 9th 1897; interior of the hall showing the vaulted wooden ceiling; boats of the visitors to the island anchored in the bay on the occasion of the opening of the hall; Hari Mamus chief of Murray Island pictured with his wife and child; and two which form one image of the interior of a church on Murray Island full to capacity with islanders on the occasion of the raising of an additional contribution to the London Missionary Society (accompanying hand-written historical note). The ones of the Malua Jubliee Hall were taken by John Davis. Photographs of: Rev A E Hunt, Mrs Hunt and Rev E Pryce Jones on the verandah of Hunt's house in Port Moresby; Rev F W Walker on the verandah of his house with New Guinean men, women and children standing in the garden; Dr W G Lawes house in Valurata; and a view of shelters next to the sea at Tupuseleia. Also includes views of Mrs W.G. Lawes, Rev H.M. Dauncey, and Suan mission house, an ocean going canoe under full sail (Lakatoi), villages of Gaile, Veibure, Matabaila, and the English church at Port Moresby. Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified by Library client Relationship complexity - copies of several prints taken by Lawes are also held in an album compiled by Photographer Henry King (see 'New Guinea/Rev. Lawes' PXE720 in The Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales). One print is also held in an album compiled by King held at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London (CWM/LMS/PNG Photos, file 4). Circa 1890 Sydney Photographer Henry King acquired negatives taken by Rev W.G. Lawes of British New Guinea in order to make prints for display at the 1893 World Exposition in Chicago. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints mounted on card

Date: 1824 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854; LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-047

Description: At the top, solid houses of the type usually seen further West in Papua New Guinea, built on a base of stone with low doors. An interior plan shows planks inside for beds. There are flowering shrubs growing outside the buildings. Further down the page is a simple shelter, with a cooking fire burning, a larger shelter and another with a conical roof showing some damage to the thatch. A drawing from Duperrey's 1824-1826 voyage to the Pacific. Copied by Chazal in Paris, from a drawing by LeJeune, the artist who accompanied Duperrey. 'Likiliki' in Pidgin means small and may have been the name given to the French for a small village. There appears to be no modern place called Likiliki in New Ireland Proof before lettering. Compare Chazal's watercolour of the same scene at C-082-046 Other Titles - New Ireland [New Guinea]. Plan and elevations of houses of Likiliki. a. Thick planks serving as beds. Hearth. Fishing shelter. House in ruins Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 323 x 232 mm to plate mark

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-058

Description: A New Guinean river scene showing two canoes in the water, a dwelling, trees and mountains in the background Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 26 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 320 mm on sheet 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-074

Description: Shows a New Guinean building, with thatched roof, on a platform jutting into the water. There are two people on the edge of the platform and one person on a canoe alongside it. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 34 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 330 mm on sheet 250 x 380 mm

Date: 1824 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Blosseville, Jules Alphonse Rene Poret, baron de, 1802-1833

Reference: C-082-051

Description: A plan of a house in New Ireland with a pointed thatched roof supported by open pillars. Along the top of the page are notes by the artist giving the local words for bed, house, shed, a red flowering plant, yellow and pagoda. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - inscriptions in ink: Nouvelle Irlande (crossed out). Lit de bois - Palae. Maison - Collok. Hangard - maito. Plante a fleur rouge - mais [?]. - jaune - Amel. Pagode - Nga. In the centre of a bed shape the word Palae is repeated. To the right of the outline of a house is Maison en ruine(s) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 200 x 160 mm

Date: 1858

From: Bent, Thomas, 1833?-1887 :[Fifteen watercolours mainly of Pacific views. 1857-1858].

Reference: A-282-020

Description: Shows a coastline seen from the water. There is a row of huts and beached canoes with ornate prows, under dense tropical vegetation on the water's edge. In the foreground is a row of densely packed British landing boats, all flying the Royal Ensign, and another rowboat nearer to the shore. The scene is in New Guinea. Guassup is Guasopa Harbour, on Woodlark Island in New Guinea. Numerical inscriptions were made by an Auckland conservator in 1999. Other Titles - Guasopa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 220 x 285 mm.

Date: [1928 or 1929]

From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Photographs relating to Reo and Eileen Fortune

Reference: PA11-210-19

Description: Village on water (possibly Pere Village) on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Looks across water to a row of thatched dwellings. Photograph taken in 1928 or 1928, by Reo Fortune. Quantity: 1 b&w original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Glass lantern slide transparency 8.3 x 8.3 cm

Date: [ca 1884]

From: Rundle, Henry J, fl 1882-1885 :Photograph album of views taken on cruises in Melanesia, Micronesia, Western Polynesia and New Guinea aboard HMS Espiegle

Reference: PA1-q-073-69

Description: Scene on Toulon Island, Papua New Guinea, photographed circa 1884, probably by a member of the crew of the HMS Espiegle. Shows rows of thatched houses on poles, and a group of local people. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Toulon Island New Guinea Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.3 x 20.7 cm, mounted on album page 30.8 x 24.5 cm