Hagen-Sepik patrol [microform], 1938-1939.

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Hagen-Sepik patrol [microform], 1938-1939.

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Approximately 500 leaves of reports filed by James L. Taylor and other agents between 1 Jan. 1938 and 3 July 1939. The reports concern the area between Mount Hagen and the Sepik River. The purpose of the patrol was to determine the quality of the area's watershed and to locate a site for a new government outpost. The reports and appendices contain extensive notes on health and medical conditions of the natives, climate, native culture, and local flora and fauna, geology, and language. Other agents represented in the collection include John Black, C.B. Walsh, Murray Edwards, Ian Downs, and P.O. Pursehouse. The microfilm was made in 1991 by Paula Brown-Glick of original documents in the custody of Margaret Taylor.

ca. 500 leaves.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406588

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Edwards, Murray D.

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Taylor, Margaret Haines, 1950-

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Walsh, C. B.

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Black, John.

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Pursehouse, P. O.

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Taylor, James Lindsay

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Downs, Ian

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Administrator, politician, planter and historian. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Downs joined the New Guinea administration as a patrol officer in 1935. He was appointed Assistant Director of Native Affairs in 1951 and was later elected to both the Legislative Council and House of Assembly. Downs served as President of the Highlands Farmers and Settlers Association between 1957-1968 and wrote an official history of the Australian administration which was published in 1980. From the des...