"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

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 Motor Camp
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 Arb205n
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 A view in motor camp at the head of launch navigation on the upper Rouffaer. This camp was always inundated at high water.
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Arb213n
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 A view in motor camp on the upper Rouffaer River at the head of launch navigation. The structures for this camp had to be built on tilings as the area was always inundated at high water. There is no high ground in the immediate vicinity of the river in this particular section.
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Arb253
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 Similar to Arb322
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Arb322
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 Dyak man at motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y016
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y017
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y018
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 Motor camp
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Quote from Stirling Journal:
 I worked all afternoon dividing the collections and labelling them… (Aug 2)


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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y019
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 Hedberg and Stirling with ethnological material collected on the middle Rouffaer; Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Y020
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Y020an
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 Motor camp flooded; convicts
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Y020b
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 Motor camp; [Dick] Peck
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Y020c
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Y020d
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 Motor camp
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 War Bkgd. #9, plate 18, Netherlands New Guinea; b: camp in the central lake plain, upper Rouffaer River, during high water
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y020e
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 C.C.F.M. le Roux
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 Motor camp; Motor camp in flood--as it appeared about half of the time
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Quote from Stirling Journal:
 ...by noon the entire camp was flooded, the water racing through at a fine rate of speed. (Aug 4)


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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y020fn
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
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 Y020gn
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 Motor camp; Canoe with carved prow ornament; is this Sebiri?
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 Carved prow of a small Dyak canoe. At Motor Camp on the Rouffaer River the entire site of the camp was frequently inundated for considerable periods of time. In order to get about the camp from one house to another, small canoes of this sort were built by the Dyaks.
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Quote from Stirling Journal:
 The Dyaks launched a new small canoe this morning with an elaborately carved head on either end… (Aug 9)


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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y021
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y022
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 Motor camp; Saleh
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y025
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y026
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 Motor camp
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Quote from Stirling Journal:
 Motor Camp is located on the north bank of the river… (July 24)


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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y027n
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 Motor camp; Dyak
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y028
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 Motor camp; sorting specimens
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y029
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y081
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y092
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 Motor camp
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Location Subject:
 Motor Camp
Filename:
 Y097
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 Dyak, motor camp
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