[Photographs of New Caledonia including many of rock carvings]

PXA 630

fonds

n.d.

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records

70561

Photographs - 43 silver gelatin photoprints - 9 x 14 cm.
Textual Records - 4 leaves

1. New Caledonia Cathedral
2. Port Ngea (South side of Noumea Promontory)
3. Noumea insanitary cubicles
4. Phoenician deities of dwarfish shape
5. Dis Vos which stand as spirit-holding guardians of tiny entrance to chiefs `case' ...
6. Dis Vos showing head cases, Niauli bark (tree) motif
7. Ancient coffin and Dis Vos showing mummy-wrapping motif
8. Bowail: end of 100m, motor road, from Noumea, Mount Nepouroi, 1400ft.
9. Bowail, cemetery and sexton
10. Manioc giant, staple food of South American natives
11. Specimens of native work, elephant cult
12. Source of Bowail River, lower right on hill where I found my first carvings
13. Source of Bowail River, just above my first carvings
14. Theophile Aviela and Bowail carvings
15. Tree of life and guide Theophile Aviela, upper Bowail
16. Second group of carvings on Bowail River near Ni
17. Terraced hill near Azarere
18. Typical scenery, hill country central New Caledonia, Azarere
19. Method of plaiting fronds of coco palms near Ni
20. Upper Bowail River, very ancient quartz serpentine rock for bead-necklace making
21. Carvings (Honailon)
22. Symbols at Oven Debouka, Kamon River near Honailou
23. Looking up Honailou River Valley over R.C. Mission from Niaoua
24-26. Rock in creek beneath Neaoua near Kamoui River
27. Remarkable one line cross, deserted cultivations of great age around foot hills of Mount Neaoua
28. Serpent symbol and boy Waimo on river Kamoui near Honailon
29. Sun symbol on Bozous Farm, Honailon close to old head of river
30-31. Rock carvings, fish and lizard symbols on Protestant Mission ground near Honailon
32. Baie de Poro near Honailon, Nickel Mines
33. Fish carving on horizontal rocks on Baie de Poro ...
34. Carving at Poro Bay, east of Honailon
35. Carved rocks at Kouaoua, discovered by A.J. Vogan, natives said more in district
36. Boundary rock in Nakati River and my guide
37. Looking Mount Keremonk from sacred terraced burial, Mount Kuen Thio
38. Isolated rock showing direction mark, Sun symbol
39. Sun symbol on rock on Keremonk Foothills near Koua River source
40. Rock carvings on Keremonk is rock
41. Like an anicent Seythian script
42. Carved canoes
43. Mount Bo-o Bo-o

Accompanied by a handwritten contents list