Vessel decorated with raised chevron decoration.

Collection type: Object
Description: Vessel decorated with raised chevron decoration.
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Oro Province Dogura Rabaraba Wedau
Person: Field collector Miss Cottingham; PRM source Miss Cottingham
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1936?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1936
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Diameter: max 115 mm, Height: max 145 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.1.225
Research and responses: Wedau is in Papua New Guinea, east of Rabaraba [The Times Atlas of the World]. Wedau is also according to Ethnologue the lingua franca for 5,000 (1985 UBS). Milne Bay Province, on the mainland from Kuvira Bay to Dogura along the north coast. Wenigala is according to Ethnologue a dialect of KEOPARA (KEAPARA, KEREPUNU) [KHZ] 16,423 (1975 SIL). Central Province, coast from east of Hood Peninsula to Lalaura west of Cape. Papua New Guinea. [MR 11/4/2000]
In July 2008 Harry Beran, author and specialist on the art of the Massim area, confirmed that Dogura is the location of the main Anglican Mission on the north coast near Wedau Village in Bartle Bay. There is a map showing the villages of Dogura and Wedau in Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society by Miriam Kahn (Waveland Press Inc, reissued 1993). Beran also noted that Miss Cottingham could be the Alice Maud Cottingham who served with the Anglican Mission in Collingwood Bay for many years from 1903 (see David Wetherall 1977 Reluctant Mission, index). [ZM 14/07/2008]

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