Most of the images that currently appear on this website
were scanned from originals in the Smithsonian’s National
Anthropological Archives. Over 700 images have been selected
because they can be definitively identified as 1926 expedition
photographs. These have been sorted into 25 location/subject
categories. An editorial selection of seventy-seven of these
images have been inserted into Matthew Stirling’s expedition
journal, along with a quotation from the journal relating
the image to the text. There are up to 5 possible kinds of
photo captions included here for each image, in addition to
the quotation from Stirling’s expedition journal. (See
Caption details)
This organization of the photographs and their captions should
make it possible to integrate, within this framework, photographs
from this expedition found in many other archives or collections.
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The film footage has been edited and digitized from a beta-cam
copy of film footage located in the Smithsonian’s Human
Studies Film Archive: OC-87.4.1: [“Stirling New
Guinea Expedition, 1926-1927”]. This footage (which
did not constitute a finished version of the film shown on
Stirling’s 1927 lecture tour) was narrated many years
later (probably in the 1960s) by Matthew Stirling. The footage
runs approximately 2 hours and has here been divided into
selections (1 to 30). Viewers may download the film selections
in either Quicktime (low or high res) or Windows Media. The
“Description” provided here for each film selection
is a transcription of the text that appeared in this original
film, as text (intertitles) between sections of film footage.
(See Interpretative Essay 2 for more details on the Film Footage
and Photographs).
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