United States Department of Agriculture photographs relating to sugar expedition to  Papua New Guinea
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-8
name: label: Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
label: Names
content: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
label: Photographer
content: Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
label: Photographer
content: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
label: Photographer
content: Jeswiet, Jacob
label: Photographer
content: Kirschbaum, Father
label: Photographer
content: Peck, R. K.
label: Photographer
content: Wisherd, Edwin L., 1900 -1970
place: label: Place
content: Papua New Guinea
topic: label: Topic
content: Body marking
label: Topic
content: Cities and towns
label: Topic
content: headgear
label: Topic
content: Sugarcane
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
creator: label: Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
culture: label: Culture
content: Negritos
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Most of the photographs were made during the 1928 Sugar Expedition to the Territories of Papua and New  Guinea organized by the United States Department of Agriculture. The expedition traveled to places in the eastern half of New Guinea. Its primary purpose was to collect living samples of various sugarcane plants to be used for developing disease-resistant strains for the American grower. The expedition was led by E. W. Brandes and included R. K. Peck, Jacob Jeswiet, and, at times, a priest named Kirschbam. The expedition visited native settlements in the vicintiy of Port Moresby, along the upper Fly River and Lake Marray, on the Sepik River, and in northeastern New Guinea.  During the expedition, photographs were made for the National Geographic Society and specimens were collected for the Smithsonian Institution.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Acetate negatives
label: Extent
content: 3 Nitrate negatives
label: Extent
content: 100 Prints (ca. 100 prints: silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 120 Prints (ca. 120 glass negatives)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-8
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Acetate negatives
label: Type
content: Nitrate negatives
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates available for some photographs.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs in E. W. Brandes, "Into Primeval Papua by Seaplane," National Geographic Magazine, volume 56 (September, 1929), pages 253-332; and E.W. Brandes and G.B. Sartoris, "Sugar Cane: Its Origin and Improvement," in United States, Department of Agriculture, Yearbook, 1936, pages 561-623.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Images of settlements, people (including Negritos), artifacts, agriculture (especially sugarcane), headdresses, tattooing and body marking, members of the expedition, and the expedition's plane.  This collection contains photographs by every member of the expedition.  Other images are from Frank Hurley's documentary, "Pearls and Savages", or were made by the Department of Agriculture at installations where sugarcane was grown.  Finally, many photographs of specimens and people working with specimens were taken by National Geographic after the expedition had returned to the United States.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Human Studies Film Archives holds Frank Hurley's "Pearls and Savages" (HSFA 89.1.1) and the Department of Agriculture's "Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea" (HSFA 82.7.1).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of New Guinea artifacts collected by Brandes also held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: New Guinea artifacts collected by Brandes held in the Department of Anthropology in USNM ACC 106509.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Edwin L. Wisherd held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Neil Merton Judd Papers.