MS 9218
Papers of Jim Taylor
Summary
Creator: Jim Taylor
Title: Papers and photographs
Date range: 1914-87
Extent: 90 cm. (7 boxes)
Reference number: MS 9218
Administrative Information
Access: Available for reference
Provenance
The Taylor Papers were donated to the National Library by Bill
Gammage, on behalf of Taylor's nephew Russ Robinson, in 1998. The core of the
collection is comprised of records Taylor brought to Sydney in 1940 to prepare
his report on the Hagen-Sepik Patrol. This material spans the period 1932-40,
though Taylor also drew on other records relating to the Patrol in his
assessment. On completing the report Taylor passed the records to his nephew,
Russ Robinson, who in turn added papers to the collection. In 1986, at Taylor's
request the records were lent by Robinson to Bill Gammage for his book about
the Hagen-Sepik Patrol, entitled The sky travellers : journeys in New
Guinea 1938-1939 (Melbourne University Press, 1998). Gammage added further
Taylor records to the original body of papers, principally acquired from John
Black and Ian Downs.
Related materials
In addition to the records preserved in MS 9387, other papers and
photographs relating to the Hagen-Sepik Patrol are filed in the papers of John
Black (MS 8346), Ian Downs (MS 8254),
Pat Walsh (MS 9217) and Bill Gammage (MS 9220). Film footage taken on
the Patrol forms part of the collections of ScreenSound Australia (http://www.screensound.gov.au/main4.htm).
Scope and Content
Papers and records documenting Taylor's career as a Patrol Officer
(kiap) in the New Guinea Highlands in the period 1927-49. The major component
of the collection comprises photographs taken on the famous Hagen-Sepik Patrol
led by Taylor in 1938-39. Taylor's patrol diary and reports, together with
workbooks, field notes, letters and other papers accumulated during the
expedition are represented amongst the supporting documentation. Other items of
interest include materials recording the Bena-Hagen Patrol (1933-34),
correspondence concerning the Leahy gold discovery, vocabularies, pocket
diaries, lecture notes, papers relating to early post-World War II
administrative policy and notes about Taylor's post-government career.
Except for Series 2, the original order of the collection had fallen
into disarray, and pages of the same document were often widely separated
amongst the papers. Between 1987-99 Gammage organised the papers in their
present arrangement, and in 1998-99 produced this descriptive list under
contract to the Library.
Biographical Note
Jim Taylor was born on 25 January 1901 in Alexandria, Sydney, second
surviving son of George Henry and Harriette (née Carter) Taylor, who had
arrived from London a year before. He attended Bondi Public and Sydney
Technical High Schools, but cut short his schooling to enlist in the Australian
Imperial Force (AIF) on 22 March 1917, aged 16. He served in France with the
34th Battalion, and was wounded and gassed on the Somme. In 1919 he
matriculated from King's College London, and in 1920 studied science at Sydney
University. There he failed a subject and consequently the year, and after
various jobs joined the New South Wales Police in 1923.
Taylor transferred to the New Guinea Police in Rabaul in September
1926 but moved to Salamaua as a kiap (patrol officer) in February 1927. He
returned to the Police force to reform internal corruption in Rabaul in
1928-31, before serving again as a kiap, principally in the Highlands. During
the ensuing 18 years, Taylor was notable for opening up the Highlands to more
outsiders than any other European.
In March-August 1933 Taylor, prospectors Mick and Dan Leahy and
surveyor Ken Spinks explored Simbu, the Wahgi, and the country around Mt Hagen,
finding a scenic wonderland and meeting large populations and rich cultures
unimagined by the world. Between March 1938 and June 1939 Taylor led the
Hagen-Sepik Patrol from Mt Hagen to the Dutch New Guinea border. It was the
longest patrol in New Guinea history, and the world's last major land
exploration.
In 1942-45 Taylor served in the Australian New Guinea Administrative
Unit (ANGAU). In March 1942 he was wounded by rebel police at Angoram, but on
recovery served behind enemy lines in the Sepik, then in the Highlands. Between
November 1944 and June 1945, with J.V. Barry and Ian Hogbin, he planned a war
compensation scheme for Papua New Guineans, then moved to Port Moresby as
Assistant Director of Labour. As such Taylor ranked as the Territory's second
senior kiap, but in September 1946 dropped salary to take charge of the
Highlands. In January 1948 he was reprimanded for not reporting a shooting of
natives by a junior kiap, and resigned in October 1949. He married Yerima
Manamp, grew vegetables and coffee, and worked gold leases on tribute at
Porgera. He settled west of Goroka, and died there of pneumonia on 28 June
1987. His wife, two daughters and an adopted son survived him.
Series List
1. Photographs, 1938-39
2. Papers, 1914-23
3. Letters, 1929-85
4. Bena-Hagen Patrol, 1933-34
5. Hagen-Sepik Patrol, 1938-40
6. Papers, New Guinea, 1926-87
Appendix 1: Detailed description of items in Series 1, 5 and 6
Series Description
Series 1 Photographs,
1916-1943
Photos taken on the Hagen-Sepik Patrol, plus one roll (11/I) taken
soon after at Kuta, south of Mt Hagen (probably by Mick Leahy who owned the
camera), and 15 miscellaneous prints 1916-1943, relating to Taylor.
Folder/Photo binder
1 Cards 1-16: Ogelbeng - Hoiyevia - Waga Valley - Wabag, March-July
1938
(MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-16)
2 Cards 17-31: Wabag - Telefomin - Sepik - Hoiyevia - Hagen - Kuta,
July 1938-June? 1939
(MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31)
3 Prints from cards 1-11: Ogelbeng - Hoiyevia - Waga Valley,
March-July 1938
(MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-11)
4 Prints from cards 12-21: Waga Valley - Strickland River,
July-October 1938
(MS 9218/1/1/Items 12-21)
5 Prints from cards 22-30: Strickland River - Hagen, October 1938-June
1939
(MS 9218/1/1/Items 22-30);
Miscellaneous prints 1916-1943, not relating to the Hagen-Sepik
Patrol
(MS 9218/1/1/Items 32-47)
(Note: Due to its large size, MS 9218/1/1/32 is filed at the rear of
Folder 2)
For more detailed descriptions of items within folders, together with
an explanation of the numbering system employed, see Appendix 1 (pp. 8-19).
Series 2 Papers, 1914-23
A folder of papers relating to Taylor' s early life in Australia,
containing school certificates, a 1916 letter received on the death of his
father, AIF records and student workbooks, 1919-20.
Folder
1 Papers, 1914-23
Series 3 Letters, 1929-85
Letters from Taylor to his mother (1929-62), his niece Rosemary
(1979), and his nephew Russell Robinson (1964-85). The folder also
includes correspondence concerning the Rabaul Strike (1929), Mt Hagen (May
1933), Dan Leahy (1936), the Hagen-Sepik Patrol (1938-39), Schmidt (a Rabaul
teacher, 1940), other wartime letters, and a letter relating to Taylor's
marriage to Yerima Manamp.
Folder
1 Letters, 1929-85
Series 4 Bena-Hagen Patrol, 1933-34
In 1933 Taylor, Mick and Dan Leahy, and Ken Spinks explored from Bena
Bena west to Kelua
(Mt Hagen), and from Kelua searched the country north, west and south.
Their reports were the first to reveal Highlands populations and culture to the
world, and the Leahy's found payable gold at Kuta. The journey was the subject
of Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's prize-winning 1986 film First
Contact, and the book of the same name (New York : Viking,
1987).
Filed in this series are the Bena-Hagen records Taylor brought to
Sydney to assist in writing his Hagen-Sepik Patrol report in 1939-40, together
with his January-March 1933 diary. Copies of Taylor's 1933 patrol diaries are
housed in the Black Papers (MS 8346/2/14).
Folder
1 Article on birds of paradise, Bulletin of the New York
Zoological Society, v. 32, no 6,
November-December 1929 (MS 9218/4/Item 1);
Diary, 1 January-27 March 1933 (MS 9218/4/Item 2)
2 Article by Reverend W. Ross, `Ethnological Notes on the Mt Hagen
Tribes...', Anthropos,
v. 31, Part A, 1936, with Taylor's annotations and his opinion of
missions at rear
(MS 9218/4/Item 3); letter book (carbon copies), May-August 1933 (MS
9218/4/Item 4)
3 Papers, including: preparatory notes on technical and administrative
matters for the patrol;
letters relating to the Leahy gold find; notes for report; diary of
Ken Spinks
(13-20 June 1933); correspondence arising from report such as missions
entering the western
Highlands; `Buase's address at the graveside of Awaiaya...' (1933) (MS
9218/4/Items 5-19);
`Vocabularies and native place names...', (1933) (MS 9218/4/Item
20)
4 `Descriptions of subjects of interest...', 1933, listing carriers
and home villages, stores;
draft report from Hoiyevia at rear, 8 June 1938 [sic] (MS 9218/4/Item
21)
Series 5 Hagen-Sepik Patrol, 1938-40
Led by Taylor, this patrol left Mt Hagen on 9 March 1938 and walked to
Hoiyevia in the southern Highlands, arriving on 8 May. There Taylor split the
patrol, sending J.R. Black on and returning with C.B. Walsh to set up a base at
Wabag. On 26 August Taylor left Walsh and walked west, joining Black at
Telefomin on 2 December. He then travelled north via the May to the Sepik to
refit, and returned via the Maramuni to Wabag, arriving on 1 April 1939. The
patrol returned to Mt Hagen on 19 June. In 1939-40 Taylor was given special
leave in Sydney to write his patrol report, which on completion amounted to 501
typed pages.
Papers in this series are arranged into sequences occurring before
(Folders 1-3), during
(Folders 4-9), and after (Folders 10-14) the patrol, but Taylor's
notes were scattered randomly and their arrangement is approximate only. Notes
are in Taylor's hand unless otherwise stated.
For more detailed descriptions of items within folders see Appendix 1
(pp. 20-22).
Folder
1 Taylor's instructions for the patrol, and notes on preparations and
requisitions; patrol reports by G. Keogh (1934), W. Kyle (1935) and plane
reconnaissance (1936)
2. Workbook entitled Line organisation - carriers and cargo...
3 Workbooks for patrol preparations
4 Papers accumulated during the patrol, including letters from
friends, field notes, inventories, interim reports
5-8 Patrol diary, 1938-39
9 Patrol report, 1940
10 Notes and correspondence arising from the patrol; notes for
report; patrol report by Ian Downs (1938); interim Hagen-Sepik patrol report by
Taylor (1939); film shot lists
11-14 Notes and lists for Hagen-Sepik patrol report
Series 6 Papers, New Guinea, 1926-87
Taylor brought most of the records in this series to Sydney, either in
1939-40 for possible use in writing his Hagen-Sepik Patrol report, or
subsequently for safekeeping by his nephew, Russ Robinson. They cover his time
as a patrol officer in the Highlands (1932-37), at Manus (1937) and during the
war. Taylor's wartime and early post-war involvement in planning post-war Papua
New Guinea - especially as that might affect Papua New Guineans - is also
recorded, together with notes on his future after his resignation from the
Administration in 1949. The 1930s records
(Folders 1-2) are of particular interest; then follow wartime (Folders
3-4) and post-war (Folder 5) records.
For more detailed descriptions of items within folders see Appendix 1
(pp. 23-24).
Folder
1 Includes pocket diaries 1934-37; cuttings of a Sydney Morning
Herald series on New Guinea and Papua, 1933
2 Letters, patrol reports, notes 1932-37, 1939-40
3 Notes, letters, papers, lecture notes from the School of Civil
Affairs at which Taylor was a teacher, 1945
4 Lecture notes from the School of Civil Affairs
5 Includes papers on early post-war policy, letters, notes on Taylor's
post-government career, 1949
Appendix 1: Detailed item descriptions for Series 1, 5 and
6
Series 1: Photographs, 1916-43
Consists of photos taken on the Hagen-Sepik Patrol, one roll (11/I)
taken soon after at Kuta south of Mt Hagen in 1939 (probably by Mick Leahy who
owned the camera), and 15 miscellaneous prints 1916-1943, relating to
Taylor.
Of the photo sets the patrol made for official purposes and personal
records, only Black's survived. Taylor's and the official sets were lost during
World War II; Walsh's in the 1974 Brisbane flood. Black's set comprised
unattributed prints, including 303 from the Leica camera which Taylor borrowed
from Mick Leahy, and 31 cards totalling 945 contact prints from this Leica,
numbered 1/A - 1/R, 1/Z (a duplicate of 1/A), 2A - 2/E, and II/1. All the 303
Leica prints were selected from the 945 card contact prints, which except for
11/I are clearly Taylor's.
To avoid assigning a different item number to a photo that is held
both as a contact print and a Leica print, both the contact cards and the
prints have parallel numbering. For example, Card 1 (Taylor's Card 1/A) is
numbered MS 9218/1/1/1, while Leica print 1 from this card is numbered
MS 9218/1/1/1: A1. Thus photo binders 1-2 (the cards) and 3-5 (the
Leica prints) all have a
MS 9218/1/1 number.
Each card displays one film roll, originally of 36 prints but usually
less here because some prints failed. Originally the cards were randomly
numbered 1/A, 1/B, 1/C and so on, but are here arranged and numbered in their
presumed chronological sequence: 1 = 1/A, 2 = 1/Z, 3 = 1/B, 4 = 1/F, 5 = 1/C
and so on. Thus the first card (already marked 1/A) is MS 9218/1/1/1, the
second (already marked 1/Z) MS 9218/1/1/2, and so on. Several cards have
Taylor's margin notes ordering prints.
Contact prints for which a Leica print exists are starred (*).
In Taylor's hand, each Leica print has on reverse a number in pencil
matching its parent contact print on a card: for example print A4 matches Card
1/A, contact print 4. This numbering is retained: A4 is thus MS 9218/1/1/1:A4;
F7 is MS 9218/1/1/4:F7. For captions see the card listing for Folders 1-2.
Then follow 15 miscellaneous prints 1916-1943, numbered MS
9218/1/5/32-47. Due to its large size, MS 9218/1/5/32 is filed at the rear of
Folder 2 (Box 1); the remaining prints are in Photo Binder 5.
Some contact and Leica prints parallel prints Walsh took (MS 9219),
and can thereby be located and dated. In 1998 Bill Gammage added captions; more
information is in his The sky travellers.
Series 1/Folder 1 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-16):
Item
1 (Card 1/A) Ogelbeng Base Camp - Gormis (Mt Hagen) Patrol
Post, March 1938
1 Wireless mast, carriers' huts and Europeans' tents, Ogelbeng, March
1938
2 House and huts rented from Ogelbeng Lutheran Mission, Ogelbeng,
March 1938
3-4*Taylor, police and carriers check loads, Ogelbeng, 5-6 March
1938
5*-6* Bugler Gershon of Nodup near Rabaul calls the patrol to start;
in background the mission house, Ogelbeng, 5-7 March 1938
7 The distant patrol lines up in front of the mission, Ogelbeng, 5-7
March 1938
8*-9 Bugler Gershon calls as the patrol lines up, Ogelbeng, 5-7 March
1938; the theodolite stand (to measure a base line) is at right.
10-11 The patrol ready to leave; Taylor, Black and Lopangom near its
head, Gormis, 9 March 1938
12-13 The patrol leaving, Gormis, 9 March 1938
14-15 Similar: Taylor, Black and Walsh head the line.
16-19 Similar, without Europeans.
20 Similar: Taylor and Walsh in foreground.
21-23*-24 Similar: Taylor, Black and Walsh in foreground.
2 (Card 1/Z) A duplicate of Card 1/A
3 (Card 1/B)? Benaria-Tari Valleys, May 1938?
1*-3* Huli men in a banana grove?, Benaria Valley, May 1938?
4*-6* -10*-11 Panorama: Tari Valley from Benaria Valley?, May
1938?
12*-14-17*-18*-21*-22 A local house of European-like design under
construction,
Tari Valley?, May 1938?; a few poles seem steel cut; Taylor's 4 and 5
May camps were on the sites of Champion camps of 30 August 1937 and 13 March
1938.
23*-24* Huli man at a camp, 4-5 May 1938?
25-28 Fighting ditches, Tari Valley, May 1938
4 (Card 1/F) Hoiyevia Base Camp, May 1938
1-2* Huli man in front of a sheet to show his wig, 11-14 May 1938
3-4*-5* Carriers lengthening the strip, south east end, 11-14 May
1938
6* Huli men and boys meet police and carriers at the camp banis
(fence), 11-24 May 1938
7-8*-10*-11* Huli men and boys at the banis, 11-24 May 1938
12-14 Mainch, Constable Karo's wife, outside the police married
quarters, 11-24 May 1938
15*-16 A wig maker who came to Taylor's tent to maintain wigs he had
sold, 23-24 May 1938
17*-18*-19* Wigged Huli men with pan pipes, 23-27 May 1938
20*-21* Huli men and boys, one inside the banis amid kaukau (sweet
potato) debris, playing pan pipes, 23-27 May 1938
22*-23 Constable Kenai on duty outside the wireless tent, 23-27 May
1938
24-25 Mainch (r.) and another police wife, 27 May 1938
26-27 Mainch, 27 May 1938
28* Huli men and boys, 27 May 1938. The tall man, centre, is Ivaia
from east of Hoiyevia, first to befriend the patrol.
29 Food sellers line the banis, 27 May 1938
Series 1/Folder 1 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-16)(cont.)
Item
4 (Card 1/F) (cont.)
30-32*-35 Watching the supply plane circling, 27 May 1938. 30-32 look
c. east over the wireless tent and some carriers' huts; 33-35 look c. west over
police on the strip; 34-35 show stacks of casuarina firewood.
5 (Card 1/C) Hoiyevia Base Camp, May 1938
1* View c. east over the wireless tent and some carriers' huts, 27
May 1938
2*-5*-6* Hoiyevia strip before grass was laid on it; 3-6 show Huli men
approaching, 27 May 1938
7-11 Men outside Taylor's tent, 29-30 May 1938. The two smoking bamboo
pipes are Ivaia (l.) and a man who later met Taylor in the Waga Valley: see 12
(Card 1/K)
34-36. Possibly he is Hilu, the priest. 10-11 show Ivaia and
Mainch.
12 Hoiyevia strip, possibly with a ground drawing in foreground, 29-30
May 1938
13*-14 Baraka of Mt Hagen, the mascot, with drum, 29-30 May 1938
15-16*-17 Hilu?, 29-30 May 1938. See caption for 7-11. The grass
covered strip at rear.
18*-19 Ivaia, 29-30 May 1938
20*-21* Huli man, possibly Gumaiba, 29-30 May 1938
22-23*-25*-26*-27* Work parties tramping down the strip, 29-30 May
1938. 26-27 how food sellers at the banis (fence)
6 (Card 1/E) Hoiyevia Base Camp, May-June 1938
1-3*-4*-7*-10*-19 Supply drop from Guinea Airways Ford (pilot Tom
O'Dea), 31 May 1938: the crowd watching, the Ford over the strip or circling,
parts of the camp. 15 shows Walsh with binoculars.
20-21*-22 L. to r.: Sgt Boginau and Taylor's servants Makis and
Banonau, c. 31 May 1938, carriers' huts at rear.
23-24*-25 Huli men
26*-27 The European dining tent, with washstand at left, and a servant
holding mugs of tea (r.). Further right is the European office, 1-2 June
1938.
28* Men selling food, 1-2 June 1938
7 (Card 1/M) Hoiyevia Base Camp, June 1938
1-2*-4*-5*-7* Portraits of New Guinean police or servants, 1-2 June
1938. 3-4 depict Sgt Lopangom; 7 may be Sepiks.
8*,12*,19*-20 The crowd waits for the Ford, 1-2 June 1938; 19 shows
Black.
9-11*,13-15*-16*-18*,21-26*-27*-30 Ford parachuting or dropping
supplies, 1-2 June 1938
31-32*-33*-34* Huli men and boys after the drop, 1-2 June 1938
35*-38 Boys with topknot hair, 1-2 June 1938
8 (Card 1/J) Hoiyevia Base Camp, June 1938
1*-2* Ivaia's daughters, the only females to visit the camp until May
1939, 2 June 1938, the boy may be their brother.
3* Huli elder, possibly Ivaia, 2 June 1938. See caption 5 (Card 1/C)
7-11.
4* The boy in 1-2 above, 2 June 1938
5 Ivaia's daughters with a police wife, 2 June 1938
6-9, 16-20, 26-33 Mainch, Constable Karo's wife, 2 June 1938
10-15 A police wife, 2 June 1938
Series 1/Folder 1 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-16)(cont.)
Item
8 (Card 1/J) (cont.)
21-24*-25* Variously Mainch, the elder in 3, Ivaia's daughters, and
the boy in 4, 2 June 1938
34*-35 Liwa (Leo) of the Waga, 2 June 1938
9 (Card 1/G) Hoiyevia Base Camp, June 1938 (contacts 1-11
only)
1*-2 Black's line departing, 13 June 1938; shows Black, his servant
Siauvute of Goroka with axe, and (far r.) Gia of Watabung, Siane, at this time
a carrier, but within a month a special constable, and after WWII police
sergeant major.
3* Black's line departing, 13 June 1938; shows Black, his Goroka area
servants Siauvute (r.), and Woiwa (l.), and his dog Lucifinka (Lucy)
4 Black's line departing, 13 June 1938; shows Black, Siauvute,
Constable Serak, the senior policeman (l.), and Constable Habana?, the second
senior (r.)
5* Black's line departing, 13 June 1938. Police being farewelled.
Constable Habana? in foreground.
6*-7* Huli wig on table, c.13 June 1938
8-11 Pan pipes and cassowary bone daggers on table, c. 13 June
1938
10 (Card 1/L) North of Hoiyevia, June 1938
Usually Taylor walked a day or so ahead of Walsh and the main body,
but on this detour all left together. These prints parallel Walsh's roll 10 so
closely that they may be a selection of the best prints from this card.
1 The grave of a carrier, Wadza of the Hagen area, who died of
pneumonia on 10 May 1938; Hoiyevia, 16-17 June 1938
2-3 Policeman outside a house barricade, north of Hoiyevia, 17 June
1938
4*-5*-6* House just north of Hoiyevia, 17 June 1938
7* Barricade north of Hoiyevia, 17 June 1938
8-10*-12 Patrol crossing the Tagwi river north of Hoiyevia, 18-19 June
1938
13*-14 Patrol at the Egada river north of Hoiyevia, 20 June 1938
15-17 Forest north of Hoiyevia, 20 June 1938; 16-17 show a camp being
built.
18*-19* Hoiyevia men and boys, 20-22 June 1938; 19 includes Sgt
Lopangom.
20-21*-22 The wireless mast, Hoiyevia, 20-22 June 1938
11 (Card 1/O) Tari gap - Waga Valley, June-July 1938
1* Police, carriers and hut skeletons: possibly the Papuan camp found
on 30 June 1938 (see Gammage p. 125), possibly a camp being built, c. 30 June
1938
2-5*-9*-10*-11*-12 Tari Valley panorama, c. southwest-northwest, 1
July 1938. Compare with Walsh roll 13/10-12.
13 Edible pandanus fruit, 1 July 1938
14-15* West end of Tari Gap, 1 July 1938
18* Tomb, possibly the Papuan grave found that day, 1 July 1938 (see
The sky
travellers, p.125)
19-22 Defensive ditches, Pura area, c. 1-2 July 1938
23-24*-25 Tari Gap, 2-3 July 1938
26*-29*-30*-31 Tari Gap, 2-3 July 1938. 26-28 is a panorama (looking
east, l. to r.) (compare with Walsh Roll 14)
32-33 Liwa shows his kin a gramophone, 4-6 July 1938
34-35*-36* `Aerial coffin', Ugu, 4 July 1938. This is the tomb in
Walsh X9+.
Series 1/Folder 1 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-16)(cont.)
Item
12 (Card 1/K) Waga Valley, July 1938
1 Waga house?, July 1938
2 A police wife uses scissors to give a youth (a carrier or a boy who
joined the patrol) a haircut, July 1938
3-4*-5*-9*-10, 13* The patrol crossing a Waga bridge, 9? July
1938. 3-4, 6-7 and 10 show a police wife; 6-7 show wigged men.
11-12* Waga men, and one Huli, watch the patrol cross, 9? July
1938
14 Karegari swamp area? from south, 10 July 1938. Compare with Walsh
roll 15/9.
15* Upper Waga men?, 10 July 1938. The pole and rope may be a light
flying fox.
16* Patrol crossing a bridge, over a Waga tributary?, 10 July
1938
17 Men follow the line at a safe distance, 10 July 1938?
18* Similar to 15.
19* River in 18.
20*-21*-23*-24* Waga country between Marapepa and Ungashibi, 10 July
1938. Compare 23 with Walsh Roll 15/7.
25-26* Waga men and boys, 10-11 July 1938
27* Waga Valley with carrier in foreground, 10-11 July 1938. Compare
the skyline with Walsh Roll 16/1.
28*-30*-31*-32 Waga Valley, 10-11 July 1938. 29 shows carriers in
foreground. 31 shows that Taylor is walking away from the mountain in 27.
33 Waga Valley men and boys, 10-12 July 1938
34*-35*-36 Hoiyevia visitor to patrol camp at Kombaiere, northeast of
Karegari swamp, 12 July 1938. Compare with Walsh Roll 15/10.
37-38 Extensive gardens northeast of Karegari swamp, 12 July 1938.
Compare with Walsh Roll 16/1.
13 (Card 1/I) Waga, Lagaip and Lai Valleys, July
1938
1* Man and boy, Waga Valley, 12 July 1938
2 Man as above.
3*-4* Youth wearing wig, Waga Valley, 12 July 1938
5* Yumbisa area landscape, 12 July 1938
6-7 House, Enga-Waga cultural divide, 12 July 1938
8 House on stilts, 12 July 1938
9 Similar, police wife on step.
10 Karegari swamp, Waga Valley, from northeast (Paui?), 12 July
1938
11-12* Men and a boy at the camp banis (fence), Paui?, 12 July 1938.
Karegari swamp in distance.
13 Similar. A policeman is giving a local man salt or girigiri (small
cowrie)
14-15 Lagaip Valley from above Biviraka, 15 July 1938
16 Biviraka (=hill, centre), and view down the Lagaip Valley, 15 July
1938
17 Lagaip Valley from near Biviraka, 15 July 1938
18-19 Man and woman in wedding dress, Biviraka area, Lagaip Valley, 16
July 1938
20 Similar, with Mainch of Kobuga near Ogelbeng.
21* Country near Ivai, Lagaip Valley, 16 July 1938
22* Bridge over the Lagaip near present-day Laiagam, 16 July 1938.
This bridge is also in Walsh Roll 16/12.
23-25* Lagaip-Lai divide, Ibiliyam area, 16-17 July 1938
Series 1/Folder 1 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-16)(cont.)
Item
13 (Card 1/I) (cont.)
26-27*-28 Men at a fortified gate, possibly Kinabulam, 17-18 July
1938
14 (Card 1/H) Wabag area, 18-20? July 1938
1*-2*-3*-4*-5* Enga women watch the patrol.
6*-7*-8*-9*-11*-12 Enga people at a patrol camp, upper Lai Valley, 18?
July 1938
7-15*-16*-18*-22*-23*-31*-33*. Enga women and the patrol. Most show
Mainch, Constable Karo's wife, in white dress and tree kangaroo tail. Prints
12-18 b are a panorama.
15 (Card 1/N) Wabag area, 18-20? July 1938
1-2*-3*-4*-6*-8*-12*-14*-21*-26*-29*-30*-32*-34*-35*-36 Enga women and
the patrol.
Most prints show Mainch. In 34 she plays a mouth organ. Several prints
form panoramas.
16 (Card 1/D) Wabag area, 18-21? July 1938
1-2 Mainch and another police wife make friends with local women at a
Lai Valley camp, 18-20 July 1938
3-5 Mainch, 18-20 July 1938
6-7*-11* Patrol servant, possibly Taylor's Sepik offsider Andivi of
Ambunti, Lai Valley, 18-20 July 1938
12-14 Patrol servant, Lai Valley, 18-20 July 1938
15 Patrol servants, Lai Valley, 18-20 July 1938
16* Enga men and boys, Lai Valley, 18-21 July 1938
17*-19*-20 Wabag area, Lai Valley, 21 July 1938
Series 1/Folder 2 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31)
Item
17 (Card 1/X) Plane flights from Wabag, August 1938
1-10 First flight: Telefomin and return, 9 August 1938
11-12 Enga people line the strip to watch the plane take off, 19
August 1938
13-22 Second flight: Sepik, Sepik fall, and return, 19 August 1938.
16-19 show Sepik,
19 a European station (Murui Mission?)
18 (Card 1/T) Wabag - Lagaip Valley, August-September
1938
1 Walsh comforts an anxious man, Wabag, August 1938
2*-3 Looking east from Ragimunda?, Lai-Ambum divide, 26 August
1938
4-5* House and young men, Ambum headwaters?, August 1938
6-9*-13 Mulitaka area, Lagaip Valley, 6-10 September 1938. 6-7, 9,
11-13 show Mt Mungalo.
14* Lagaip Enga men, 6-10 September 1938
15 Lagaip camp, 6-10 September 1938
16*-17*-21 Lagaip camp, 6-10 September 1938. 16-18 show carriers and
Huli building the camp.
Series 1/Folder 2 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31)(cont.)
Item
18 (Card 1/T) (cont.)
22-23* View from above camp, 6-10 September 1938
24-26 Walia area mountains?, 10-11 September 1938. Shows white rock
face.
27*-32 Porgera area mountains?, 12-19 September 1938. 29 and 32 may
show the patrol's `inverted bucket' mountain.
19 (Card 1/P) Porgera Valley, September 1938
1-2*-3 Mt Kaijende from southeast, c. 18-19 September 1938
4-6,10* Ipili (Porgera) men, c. 18-23 September 1938
7-9,11 Taylor's offsiders, c. 18-23 September 1938
12-13*-16*-20 Ipi'li (Porgera) men at a camp, c.18-23 September 1938.
12-18 show a man with pan pipes, wearing a bullock horn wig. 19 shows a Huli
visitor.
21-27 Mt Kumbipara dominating country west of Porgera Valley, 18-23
September 1938
20 (Card 1/Y) Porgera - Logaiyu River, September-October
1938
1 Mt Kumbipara dominating country west of Porgera Valley, 18-23
September 1938
2-5 The line crossing a river, September 1938
6 Porgera area country?, September 1938?
7-11 Ipili men, some wearing bullock horn wigs, another bird of
paradise plumes, Porgera-Paiela area, September 1938
12 Ipili men watch carriers cutting branches with tomahawks, September
1938
13-15 Visitors to patrol camp(s) in the bush, September 1938
16-18 Crossing a river on a fragile bridge [Pagubeia river?], 28
September 1938?
19-23 Boy outside house, Pori river area?, October 1938
24-28 Pori mountains?, October 1938
29-30 A local guide, carrying European and local shoulder bags, Pori
mountains?, October 1938
31*-34*-37 Crossing the Logaiyu (now the Pori) by flying fox, 10
October 1938. Taylor nearly drowned when he fell in here.
21 (Card 1/W) Pari - Strickland River, October 1938
1 Pari hill, showing part of Taylor's message to a plane, `JLT is
Black at Sepik', 15-16 October 1938
2-3 Looking south?, Pari hill-Lake Kopiago, 17 October 1938
4*-5*-6*-7* Lake Kopiago from northeast, 17-18 October 1938. The size
of the lake, which Taylor was approaching, suggests that the sequence should be
7, 4, 6, 5
8*-9*-10* Lake Kopiago men, 19 October 1938
11*-12*-14* Lake Kopiago from west (near Hirane), 19 October 1938
15*-16* Looking southwest to Tumbudu Gorge from Mara, 19-20 October
1938
17* Lake Kopiago from Mara, 19-20 October 1938
18*-19* Duna men and boys, Mara area, 19-21 October 1938
20*-21*-22* Looking W from above Tumbudu River, 21 October 1938
23*-24*-25*-26*-27* Looking west down Aruni Valley to mountains beyond
the Strickland River, 24-25 October 1938
Series 1/Folder 2 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31)(cont.)
Item
21 (Card 1/W) (cont.)
28*-29* Yeru area country, 25-27 October 1938
30*-31*-32*-33*-34* Strickland River from near Fugili, 27-28 October
1938
22 (Card 1/U) Strickland River - Tekin Valley?,
October-November 1938
(for crossing location see map in The sky travellers)
1-2 Distant view of Strickland Gorge, 27-28 October 1938
3-4*-5* Penis gourd men from west of the Strickland with laplap men
from east of it, Fugili area, 28 October 1938
6* Strickland River country, 1 November 1938
7-8*-10*-11*-12*-13*-14*-16*-17 Strickland bridge, 7 November 1938.
7-8 show the remnants of Black's July bridge, 9 the view upstream from 7-8,
10-17 the repaired bridge and the line crossing, 13 carriers helping a fallen
man
18-19*-20* Strickland Gorge from above west bank, 8-10 November
1938
21*-22*-23 Looking west or northwest from above, 8-10 November 1938.
23 may be the Bak-Tekin divide from the south.
24*-25*-26*-27*-28*-33*-35*-36*-37* Min men, Bak or Tekin Valleys,
mid-November 1938. 1988 research suggested 33 and 37 were boys at Kunanap,
Tekin Valley.
23 (Card 1/S) Tekin Valley - Feramin (Sepik), November
1938
1 Min men, Tekin Valley, 15-21 November 1938
2-4*-5*-6*-7*-8*-10*-11*-12*-14*-15*-16*-17*-19* Looking west from
several locations on the Tekin-Sepik divide, 22-23 November 1938. 4-7 and 10-11
form panoramas; 15-19 may show the distant Telefomin plateau.
20*-21*-22* Sgt Lopangom with Feramin men, c. 26 November 1938. 20
shows Lopangom seeking directions or instructing a youth to look at Taylor's
camera; 21-22 show Lopangom placing the youth for the camera to show the
youth's initiate headdress. The youth holds salt or shell which Lopangom has
paid him from the small bag he holds.
23* Men building a hut, probably Feramin, 26 November 1938
24-25*-26, 28-29* Sepik river at Feramin, 26-29 November 1938. 25-26
& 28-29 show local men, carriers and patrol packs on the bank.
27* Liwa (Leo) of the Waga, Feramin, 26-29 November 1938
24 (Card 1/Q) Feramin - Telefomin, November-December
1938
1-2 Sepik river at Feramin, c.27 November 1938
3 Spirit house, Feramin?, c.27 November 1938
4-6* Feramin watch house, 1-2 December 1938
7*-8*-14 `No Man's Land: country between Feramin and Telefomin, 1-2
December 1938; 8 shows a distant carrier line.
15-16 Telefol watch house, Sol River area, 2 December 1938
17*. Telefomin plateau (distant) from the east, 2 December 1938
18*-23*-25*-27*-28 Telefol people and carriers, Telefomin Base Camp,
3-6 December 1938.
Shows parts of Black's camp; marfum initiate youths; and the good
relations between carriers and villagers.
Series 1/Folder 2 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31)(cont.)
Item
24 (Card 1/Q) (cont.)
29-33*-34*-35*-36 Telefolip village, 7 December 1938. 29 shows the
rear of the `cult' house as seen on approaching the village; 30-31 villagers;
32-33 and 35 police and villagers; 34 and 36 the village from in front of the
`cult' house.
25 (Card 1/R) Telefomin Base Camp, 7-8
December 1938
1 Telefol women outside Black's house. Carriers' huts at rear.
2*-3*-4 Panorama west to the Sepik Gorge and Urapmin from c. south of
camp.
5 Telefomin Base Camp from c. south Black's house centre; l. Black's
cookhouse then carriers' huts; r. police houses.
6* Telefol women and children near carriers' huts.
7*-8*-9*-11*-12*-13*-14*-15*-16* Panorama from the ridge east of the
Base Camp, clockwise from south. 12 shows Borgelmin? village.
17 A closer view of 13, looking c. west.
18-19*-24*-26*-27*-30*-31*-33 Telefol people. 26 wears a .303
cartridge case; 28 shows a servant; 31 wears cowrie and beads got from a
patrol.
26 (Card 2/E ) Sepik River - Maramuni,
January-March 1939
1*-3*Patrol barges being towed by Sirius, 18-19 January
1939
4 Sepik river, January 1939
5-7 Haus tambarin, Sepik river, January 1939
8 Sepik river canoes, January 1939
9*-11* Sepik from a European verandah, Murui?, 19? January 1939
12-13*-14*-15 Sepik or Karawari river scenes, January 1939
16-17*-21*-22* Arafundi river scenes, c.17-19 February 1939
23*-24*-25*-28 Arafundi headwaters looking north towards Maramuni, mid
March 1939
27 (Card 2/C) Waga - Hoiyevia, April-May
1939
1-2 Limestone outcrop on Waga divide, called Tundok, a place for
killing pigs, between Marapepa and Ungashibi, 30 April 1939
3-8 High country west of Marapepa in the Waga and north of Hoiyevia,
3-6 May 1939
9-10 Men meet the line north of Hoiyevia, 6-8 May 1939
11,14 Sugar cane and kaukau (sweet potato) sold to the patrol,
Hoiyevia, 9 May 1939. In two hours people sold 5000 pounds of taro and
kaukau.
12-13 Man wearing kina got from the patrol in 1938, Hoiyevia, 8-13 May
1939
15-34 People at the camp banis (fence), Hoiyevia, 8-13 May 1939. 18 is
Ivaia; 23 and 29-31 show women: women did not visit in 1938 (two girls did one
day)
35 Site of the 1938 camp, Hoiyevia, 8-13 May 1939
28 (Card 2/B) Hoiyevia - Porgera, May
1939
1-23 Huli people, Hoiyevia, 8-13 May 1939. Most show wigmen; 7 and 18
show women; 13-16 Huli wigged youths with painted faces.
24-25 Looking south to Hoiyevia, 14 May 1939. View similar to Walsh's
the previous June (see Walsh Roll 11/1)
26-35 Porgera Valley from Hoiyevia track, 19-20 May 1939
34-35 Shows the mountain in 18 (Card 1/T), 29 and 32 (September
1938)
Series 1/Folder 2 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31)(cont.)
Item
29 (Card 2/D) Sirunki - Wabag, June
1939
1-4 Panorama: Lake Iviva plateau from west, 4? June 1939
5-6 Lake Iviva north of Sirunki, 4-5 June 1939
7-9 Wireless masts, probably from Walsh's patrol of April 1939, Lake
Iviva area, 4-5 June 1939
10-13 Lai headwaters panorama, 6 June 1939
14-17 Kaukau gardens, Lai Valley near Sopas, showing high poles and
rope strung with pieces of woman's skirt to prevent theft, 7 June 1939
18-19. Sopas?, Lai Valley, 7 June 1939
20-27 Police parade at Bugler Gershon's grave, Wabag, 11 June 1939. 20
at ease, Sgt Lopangom at left; 23-24 at present, Lopangom saluting; 25-27
reversed arms.
28-37 Looking east to Mt Hagen from above Wabag, 12 June 1939. There
seem to be two panoramas, but if so the prints are mixed
30 (Card 2/A) Ailamanda Base Camp - Hagen, June
1939
1*-2 Ailamanda graves, 14-15 June 1939, one possibly of the Telefol
boy Wongsep, who died of malaria on 8 May
3-4 Ailamanda man, 14-15 June 1939
5 Walsh's camp, Ailamanda, 14-15 June 1939
6-7 Ailamanda man, 14-15 June 1939
8*-9 Ailamanda men dressed for an occasion, 14-15 June 1939
10-11 The men surround and kill a pig, 14-15 June 1939
12-14 Grave of Gorentz of Hagen, who died of gangrene on 14 June,
Ailamanda, 15-16 June 1939
15-16 Tree marking grave of Waubu of Simbu, who died of internal
injuries on 31 May, Ailamanda, 15-16 June 1939
17-18 View from near Ailamanda east to Yaramunda, Minyamp Valley, 16
June 1939
19*-20 Melpa (Hagen) man, possibly Koive of Kendiga, who treated
Taylor hospitably on 18 June, 16-18 June 1939
21-22*-23 Looking east or southeast towards Mt Hagen from above
the Nebilyer River, 18 June 1939. 21-22 are a panorama.
24-25* The line forming up to enter Mt Hagen, 19 June 1939
26 The patrol enters Mt Hagen, 19 June 1938. The track was the 1998
Highlands Highway; the view is from water tower hill.
31 (Card 11/I ) Kuta, ? June 1939
This roll was taken at Kuta, the Leahys' gold lease south of Mt Hagen.
Taylor did not visit Kuta in 1939. He probably returned the camera to its
owner, Mick Leahy.
1 Ted Taylor, DO Morobe, surveys the country north towards Mt
Hagen.
2 Ted Taylor and an Eastern Highlands (Bena?) girl.
3 Girl in above.
4-13 Highlands women in European dress. 4-5 and 10-12 show a mother
apparently with a mixed race baby.
14 Local boys, probably servants.
15 Mother and baby.
16-23 Eastern Highlands men, probably Kuta lease workers, in singsing
dress.
24 Ted Taylor (l.), Mick Leahy and Mick's dog Snowy.
Series 1/Folder 2 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 17-31) (cont.)
Item
31 (Card 11/I) (cont.)
25 Mick Leahy (l.) and Ted Taylor.
26-27 Ted Taylor and Snowy watch a local singsing group approach along
Kuta ridge.
28-33 Ted Taylor in a kama (dance ground) on the Kuta - Hagen
track.
34 Ted Taylor on the track approaching Gormis (Mt Hagen)
Note: Due to its large size, MS 9218/1/1/32, a miscellaneous photo
listed under Folder 5, is stored at the rear of Folder 2.
Series 1/Folder 3 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 1-11)
Leica prints matched with contact card numbers. No Leica print relates
to Card 2. For captions see the card captions.
Item
1 Card 1/A: 4-5, 6 (2), 8 (2), 32
3 Card 1/B: 1, 3-4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 21, 23-24
4 Card 1/F: 2 (with Black's 1987 caption, `JL Taylor's servant BONONA
of Manus murdered in Aitape during the war by local native treachery. ENGA
wigman. (The wigman is Huli; the servant may be Banonau, or Makis of Manus), 4
(with Black's 1987 caption, `Hoiyevia clearing air drop site'), 5, 6 (2), 8
(2), 10, 11 (with Black's 1987 caption, `At the banis (fence) Hoiyevia'), 15,
17-22, 28 (2), 32, 35
5 Card 1/C: 1-2, 5-6, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21 (2), 23 (2), 25 (2, one with
Black's 1987 caption, `At Hoiyevia. Carriers returning after tramping down the
drome'), 26-27
6 Card 1/E: 3-4, 7, 10 (2), 12 (2, one with Black's 1987 caption
`Boganau of Manus 1938'), 14, 26, 28 (2, one with Black's 1987 caption `Trading
at Hoiyevia')
7 Card 1/M: 2, 4 (with Black's 1987 caption `Sgt Lopengon Hagen Sepik
Patrol 1938/9), 5, 7, 8, 11-12, 15-16, 18-19, 26-27, 32, 33 (2), 34-35
8 Card 1/J: 1, 2 (2), 3-4, 24 (2), 25, 34
9 Card 1/G: 1, 3 (3, one with Black's 1987 caption `J.R. Black leaving
HOIYEVIA 1938. WOIWA and SI-AUWUTEI of GOROKA assistants to KOLOGEI of RAI
coast. GIA of Waterbung SIANI later Sgt Major. My dog LUCIFINKA'), 3 detail (2
x 1987 prints with Black's 1987 captions and signed), 5 (2), 6, 7 (3)
10 Card 1/L: 4-7, 10, 13, 18-19, 21
11 Card 1/O: 1, 5, 9-11, 15, 18, 24, 26, 29-30, 35-36
Series 1/Folder 4 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 12-21)
Leica prints matched with contact card numbers. No Leica print relates
to Card 17. For captions see card captions.
Item
12 Card 1/K: 4-5, 9, 12-13, 15-16, 18-21, 23-24, 26-28, 30-31,
34-35
13 Card 1/I: 1, 3-5, 12, 21-22, 25, 27
14 Card 1/H: 1 (2), 2 (2), 3-8, 9 (2), 11 (3), 15, 16 (2), 18 (2), 22,
23 (2), 31, 33
15 Card 1/N: 2-4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 21, 26, 29-30, 32, 34-35
16 Card 1/D: 7, 11, 16-17, 19
18 Card 1/T: 2, 5, 9 (with Taylor's? caption, `Hari Monongo' [Mt
Mungalo]), 14, 16, 17 (2), 23, 27 (2)
19 Card 1/P: 2, 10, 13, 16
20 Card 1/Y: 31, 34
21Card 1/W: 4-5, 6 (2), 7-8, 9 (2), 10-12, 14-16, 17 (2), 18-23, 24
(2), 25-32, 33 (2), 34
Series 1/Folder 5 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 22-30)
Leica prints matched with contact card numbers. No Leica print relates
to Cards 27-29 and 31. For captions see card captions.
Item
22 Card 1/U: 4 (2), 5-6, 8, 10-12, 13 (2), 14, 16, 19, 20 (2), 21-22,
24-28, 33 (2), 35-36, 37 (2)
23 Card 1/S: 4-8, 10-12, 14-17, 19-23, 25-27, 29
24 Card 1/Q: 6-8, 17, 18, 23, 25, 27, 33-35
25 Card 1/R: 2-3, 6-9, 11-16, 19, 24, 26-27, 30-31
26 Card 2/E: 1 (with Black's 1987 caption `Taylors' Party being towed
on Sepik 1939'), 3, 9, 11, 13-14, 17, 21 (2), 22-25
30 Card 2/A: 1, 8, 19, 22, 25
Series 1/Folder 5 (MS 9218/1/1/Items 32-47)
Item
32 Original Bondi Baseball Team, 1916. Caption names Taylor and his
friend Burnie O'Brian, killed 1915-18. (Note: Large size, and therefore stored
at rear of Folder 2)
33 New Guinea police on parade under a European drillmaster, Rabaul?
wharf, c. 1920s
34 Panorama west from Kelua, a landing ground Taylor and the Leahys
built near Mt Hagen in 1933. Baiyer river gap at r. (+ 3 prints joined)
35 Taylor's trusted police orderly Buase (l.) and his personal servant
Banonau, c. 1939 (+ 1996 print and negative)
36 Jim Taylor. En Route to NG Shows (l. to r.) Mick Leahy, William
McNicoll? (Administrator), Taylor, Mrs McNicoll?, on board ship, c. 1935
37 Major J.L. Taylor, ANGAU, 1943
38 Major J.L. Taylor, ANGAU, 1943 (negative, sepiagraph, and colour
photocopy)
39-41 Prints of pp. 336-41, Antiquity, 1933, showing Trojan
axes similar in shape to Hagen axes.
42-47 Mick Leahy photos among Taylor's effects:
42 Tanni, Ono River, Morobe, c. 1930, with Leahy's caption, `8000 feet
above sea level
carrying alluvial gold'
43 Natives, Ono River, Morobe, c. 1930
44 Natives, Ono River, Morobe, c. 1930
45 Marys [women], Head Waria River, Morobe, c. 1930
46 Native Bridge, Morobe, c. 1930
47 Type of Natives. Head of Rirari [Purari] River, with Leahy's
caption `This bloke is not too sure what's going to happen. Note the marys
getting behind him', Bena Bena, 1932-33
Series 5: Hagen-Sepik Patrol 1938-1940
Folder 1
Item
1 Patrol report: A/ADO G. Keogh to Yuat headwaters in pursuit of
Schmidt, Aug-Oct 1934
2 Patrol report: A/ADO W. Kyle to the Yuat, Maramuni and Karawari
rivers in pursuit of Schmidt, April-June 1935
3 Patrol report: Plane reconnaissance flights south and west of Mt
Hagen, 1 and 2 February 1936
4 Taylor's instructions and early patrol proposals, 1937-38
5 Planning notes for the patrol
6 Planning notes and stores requisitions, January-February 1938
7 Instructions for Kodak photography; notes on photos
8 Stores requisitions December 1938 and January 1939
9 Planning notes
10 Notes on guides, police
11 Planning notes on police, carriers, stores, air transport
12 Instructions to carriers; planning notes regarding carriers
Folder 2
Item
13 Workbook: Line organisation - carriers and cargo...
Folder 3
Item
14 Workbook: Plane cargo weights and loads
15 Workbook: Planning notes for patrol; the last page has notes for
the report
Folder 4
Item
16 Letter air dropped to Taylor at Hoiyevia, 1 June 1938, from Mick
Leahy, dated 23 April 1938
17 Letter air dropped to Taylor at Hoiyevia, 1 June 1938, from Tommy
O'Dea, dated 31 May 1938
18 Pre-arranged ground signals to planes
19 Notes on Hoiyevia air drops
20 Letter air delivered to Taylor at Wabag, August 1938, from Mick
Leahy, dated 2 Aug 1938, discussing Kuta gold working
21 Progress report from Sir William McNicoll (Administrator) to Prime
Minister on the Patrol, 1 Sep 1938
22 Record of patrol radio conversations, 3 October 1938
23a & b Interim Patrol Report: J.R. Black, Telefomin, 19 Oct 1938
(two copies)
24 Field notes, Maramuni and Wabag, 1939
25 Field notes and reports to McNicoll, December 1938-April 1939
26 Field notes April-May 1939; field notes for patrol report
27 Field book: inventories of stores, carriers; list of books to
read
Series 5 (cont.)
Folder 5
Item
28 Notes 1938
29 1 January-c. 23 February 1938
30 19 February-10 March 1938
Folder 6
Item
31 9-17 March 1938
32 18 March-23 April 1938
33 24 April-9 June 1938
34 9 June-22 July 1938
35 23 July-11 September 1938
36 9, 19 August 1938: plane flights
37 12 September-6 October 1938
38 7-28 October 1938
Folder 7
Item
39 29 October-24 November 1938
40 24 November-26 December 1938
41 24 [sic] December 1938-12 January 1939
42 13 January-14 February 1939
43 15 February-9 March 1939
44 10-29 March 1939
45 30 March-5 April 1939
46 6 April-3 May 1939
Folder 8
Item
47 4-19 May 1939
48 20 May-30 June 1939
49 1 July-25 August 1939
50 25 August-20 October 1939
Folder 9
Item
51 Hagen-Patrol report, 1940: 501 pp., typed, with Taylor's margin
notes (photocopy). Biro margin notes, principally dates, are by Bill
Gammage.
Series 5 (cont.)
Folder 10
Item
52 S. Campbell, `The country between the headwaters of the Fly and
Sepik rivers in New Guinea', Geographical journal, v. 42, no. 3,
September 1938: offprint with Campbell's note to Taylor
53 Newspaper and journal clippings on exploring, 1938-39
54 Draft message from Taylor regarding Hagen-Sepik police postings, 14
June 1939
55 Notes relating to report writing routine, Sydney 1940
56 Notes for report
57 Letters to Taylor, including from prospector John Peadon, Ian
Downs, E.W.P. Chinnery, Leica Sydney, W. Flierl regarding early Lutheran
exploration in the Highlands
58 Letter from Constable Kamuna Hura, ex Hagen-Sepik Patrol, to his
wantok Sergeant Major Sapila Avivisa, 7 July 1939 (pidgin and place talk, with
translation)
59 Correspondence arising from Hagen-Sepik Patrol, 1939-40
60 Ian Downs, Report on Hagen-Sepik Patrol, 31 August 1938-18 January
1939, with covering letters (typed)
61 J.L. Taylor, Interim Report on Hagen-Sepik Patrol, November 1939
(typed)
62 Letter to Taylor, 2 April 1940, regarding the drowning at Rabaul of
Nabranka of Telefomin
63-64 Shot lists of Hagen-Sepik films, 1981, (relating to Taylor's
donation of films to the National Library, now in the collections of
ScreenSound Australia)
Folder 11
Item
65 Five cut down manila folders with Taylor's notes for his
Hagen-Sepik report, 1939-40
66 Stories for Hagen-Sepik report, 1938-40
67 Notes and papers for Hagen-Sepik report, 1938-40
Folder 12
Item
68-72 Notes and papers for Hagen-Sepik report, 1938-40
Folder 13
Item
73 Workbook: Notes and papers, including for Hagen-Sepik report,
1938-40
74 Workbook: List of curios from Hagen-Sepik Patrol
75 Workbook: Notes for Hagen-Sepik report, 1939-40
Folder 14
Item
76 Workbook: Notes for Hagen-Sepik report, 1939
77 Workbook: Notes for Hagen-Sepik report, 1939-40
Series 6: Papers, New Guinea, 1926-87
Folder 1
Item
1-4 Pocket diaries, 1934-37
5 Sydney Morning Herald cuttings on New Guinea and Papua,
1933
6 Cheque book butts and a receipt, 1939
Folder 2
Item
7 Letter from Ted Taylor (District Officer, Morobe, no relation)
relating to the opening of Sigoiya Seventh Day Adventist mission, 11 April
1933
8 Instructions to Sgt [Lopangom] regarding maintaining Bena Police
Post while Taylor was on the Bena-Hagen Patrol, 1933
9 Draft of above
10 Notes, Kainantu, Bena, Ufeto areas, 1932-35
11 Notes; circular instructions, 1934-35; New Guinea Government
Gazette, 1934; newspaper cuttings including Taylor's name on a list of
King's Medal recipients, 1935
12 Taylor's report, 3 December 1936, Alleged shooting of natives in
Uncontrolled Area by Leahy Bros.’
13 Taylor's address to the natives at Wau, Coronation Day, 12 May
1937
14 Circular instructions, 1937
15 Taylor's Patrol Report, Manus, 10 August-3 September 1937
16 Notes while District Officer, Manus, July-December 1937
17 Note on envelope regarding Hagen botanical specimen, 1937
18 Patrol Officer Keith McCarthy, hand drawn cartoon of Taylor,
1939
19 Receipts; newspaper pages (folded), 1939-40
20 Notes for a speech at Mick Leahy's wedding, ? Mar 1940
21 Taylor's certificate of election as Fellow, Royal Geographical
Society, November 1941
22 Notes regarding Taylor's affairs in Australia, 1934-40
Folder 3
Item
23 Taylor's army commission, 23 March 1943 (folded)
24 Three letters, 1940-45, including from Bill MacGregor with proposal
for horse transport, 1944
25 Article on New Guinea from The missionary review, May
1945
26 Taylor's draft, Native troops and associated correspondence,
1945
27 Note regarding Banonau's loyalty and death
28-30 Papers by Leo Austen (Papua) and Taylor (New Guinea) on Native
Welfare for an
ANGAU Senior Officers' conference, Feb 1944, and discussion
(roneo)
31 Paper by Taylor, Mercantile stores and the introduction of coinage,
ANGAU, May 1944
Folder 4
Item
32 Folder and enclosures relating to (Native) War Compensation Inquiry
[under J.V. Barry], November 1944-June 1945
33-36 L.H.Q. School of Civil Affairs, Canberra, 1945: notes and
reports on the School's future; employing Highlanders in malaria areas, Sep
1945; New Guinea Public Service
37-41 L.H.Q. School of Civil Affairs, Canberra, 1945: lecture notes on
a patrol officer's duties (five roneoed lectures)
42-55 School of Civil Affairs: lecture notes on comparative colonial
administration (14 roneoed lectures)
56 Taylor's paper, General policy for development of ... New Guinea
and Papua, 2 March 1945 (typed)
57-64 School of Civil Affairs: lecture notes on native development
(roneoed); drafts and correspondence on native development
Folder 5
Item
65-67 Papers on native education, c.1946 (typed)
68 Handwritten extract (by Taylor's mother?) on home rule for Egypt,
undated
69 Three 1949 letters, including from David Fienberg [Fenbury], and
Buase (pidgin)
70-76 Notes and correspondence regarding Taylor's post-government
career in aspects of Highlands primary production, 1949
77 Letters from Taylor's sister Barbara Loring in Honolulu to her
mother Harriette, 1953
Box List
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Box |
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1 |
3-4 (photo binders) |
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2 |
1 |
5 (photo binder) |
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2 |
2 |
1-2 |
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
|
2 |
4 |
1-2 |
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3 |
4 |
3-4 |
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3 |
5 |
1-4 |
|
4 |
5 |
5-7 |
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5 |
5 |
8-10 |
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6 |
5 |
11-14 |
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6 |
6 |
1-2 |
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7 |
6 |
3-5 |
February 1999