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Title
Item 04: Vignettes of life in Papua, by Ellis Silas, 1922
Call number
A 3055/vol. 4
Level of description
file
Date

1922
Type of material
Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
1120767
Physical Description
1 volume
Scope and Content
Sketchbook with 28 chalk drawings including explanatory notes and descriptions. Inscribed "Ellis Silas c/o E. Whitehouse A.R.M. (Assistant Resident Magistrate] Trobriands Samarai Papua".

1. Village of Hanuabada, Port Moresby
2. Port Moresby, Papua, 1922
3. Native dance, Hanua
4. Main street, Marine Parade, Samarai, Papua, 1922
5. Marine Parade, Samarai, Papua, showing B.P. ship, 1922
6. Island walk, Samarai, Papua, 1922
7. Natives gathering shell fish at low tide, Samarai
8. Kwato. Mission Station off Samarai
9. Samarai
10. Native night at the cinema. Samarai Papua
11. The prison. Samarai
12. The Residency, Kiriwina, Trobiands [Trobriands], Papua
13. Village of Gumilibaba, Trobriands. Papua
14. Native woman Trobiand [Trobriand] Islands Papua
15. Off to a wedding. Trobiands [Trobriands]
16. Native canoe (wagga) Trobiand [Trobriand] Islands Papua
17. Wawela. Trobiands [Trobriands], Papua
18. (Iaguma) Gourd with Lime Stick attached
19. A piccanin Kiriwina Trobriands. Papua
20. [Ketch]
21. Canoe race Trobiands [Trobriands]. Papua
22. Kaibola, Trobiands [Trobriands]. Papua
23. Sketch made at Kaibola, Trobiand [Trobriand] Islands
24. Canoe on lagoon
25. [Resident magistrate administering medicine]
26. [Parrots]
27. Toqualu on Boima (Food store] Kasiga Trobiand [Trobriand] Islands Papua
28. [Trees]
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D38307/c02769.html
General note

Sketchbook contained letter to the Mitchell Library and frontispiece for cover of binding, both removed to separate folders, A 3055 / vol. 4 / folder 1 and A 3055 / vol. 4 / folder 2
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