Biak Natives "Sing Sing" 1
Birthdays
Dances
Native peoples
"Local people dance - "Sing Sing" to celebrate Dutch Queen Wilamina's Birthday - Gov't supplied crepe paper head gear" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Queen Wilhelmina's Birthday Party. In 1944, Biak was part of the Netherlands East Indies, a Dutch colony whose reigning monarch was the popular Queen Wilhelmina. By August 1944, her birthday on the 31st had become Koninginnedag, a national holiday. As Hill recorded, men, women, and children on Biak observed their 'Queen's' 66th birthday -- and perhaps the end of Japanese control -- with apparent gusto by singing and dancing and drumming and playing and feasting on the beach. With Japanese forces diminished, 'Netherlands officials [by August 31 were gradually bringing] the native population back under Dutch control as rapidly as each area was cleared of troops. Some native laborers were supplied to the HURRICANE Task Force, and native scouts proved of real help during mopping-up operations." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
8/31/1944
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Biak Native Homes 5
Homes
Huts
Native peoples
"Native homes on stilts over the water. Outrigger canoe with at least 10 people going by" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Homes at Parai. 'Off limits' for soldiers, Hill and Casey hitchhiked down the coast to Parai on August 23. In his letter, Hill described the village: 'The huts are built on pilings out from the base of the cliff a hundred feet or so. Walkways connect most of the houses. Palm trees grow between the ridge and the huts....' The men photographed two types of traditional houses: 'rum som, a house of blood relatives... occupied by parents (Father and Mother) and their son who was married
rum sram, a youth house...occupied by young men [and]...used...as a traditional educational centre...for [learning] warfare, hunting, fishing, gardening, etc.' At one house, Hill photographed an enterprising native woman drying GI laundry on a hand railing." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
8/23/1944
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Bamboo Water Tubes 2
Native peoples
"Biak native filling his bamboo water carrying tube at a hose leak at a military fresh water source on Biak, Netherlands, New Guinea"
Hill, Fred
8/23/1944
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Bamboo Water Tubes 1
Homes
Huts
Native peoples
"Local residents carrying drinking water from Army Purification unit in large bamboo tubes" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Purified Water. At Parai, Hill also documented two alert young men patiently catching drinking water from a leaky Corps of Engineers hose. Once their bamboo cylinders filled, they packed that purified American water home -- one gallon in each hand." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
8/23/1944
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2010.1.291
Biak Natives, Long Canoe
Native peoples
Naval ships
"Two Liberty Ships and an LC1 behind a native large canoe with a sail, at Biak" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Boat Antithesis. Stabilized by outrigger, assisted by sail, four Biak men paddle their large wood canoe on Soenggarai Bay. Praised for their first-class seamanship, these Biak natives may be traveling here by wai mansusu (a battle canoe) or by wai ron (a trading canoe). Hill wrote Martha that 'still cameras can't show the slow rhythmic grace of the great canoes as they move around.' In the background, a diesel-fired Liberty Ship rides at anchor." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
8/23/1944
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2010.1.289
Finchhaffen Native, Carving
Carving
Native peoples
"Local New Guinea native carving a bamboo comb - Copy from a color slide" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Carving a Comb. Using a western-style scout knife, an older Papuan man crafts a bamboo comb. During the war, such items were popular for both trade and domestic use." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
6/8/1944
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Finchhaffen Native Children 2
Children
Native peoples
"Native village children with bows & arrows"
Hill, Fred
5/15/1944
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Finchhaffen Native Children 1
Children
Native peoples
"5 native children, some naked at the Village above the Taro garden at Finchhaffen" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Village Children. As Hill wrote to Martha, the Papuan 'women stepped back in the shadows of their huts when they saw us, but the little kids swarmed all around the place and played with bows and arrows." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
5/15/1944
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2010.1.202
Finchhaffen Mosquito Abatement 3
Native peoples
Military life
Military uniforms
Casey, Bob Mata Moto
Tryk, Howard
"Sgt Bob Casey, Mata, Moto, M/Sgt Tryk. Ice cubes - strange new things to local citizens #3 filter" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Ice Cube Friends. Mata and Moto, two boys from the Finschhafen area hired by the Army to spray for mosquitos, pose with Sgt Bob Casey (left) and M/Sgt Howard Tryk, head of Communications section (right). The occasion is the discovery of ice cubes -- Mata's and Moto's first contact with the frozen stuff. Hill also documents here what he noted for Martha -- the influence of European clothing." ("Darkroom Soldier" caption authored by George Venn)
Hill, Fred
4/26/1944
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2010.1.193
Finchhaffen Mosquito Abatement 9
Military life
Military uniforms
Native peoples
Casey, Bob Mata Moto
"Bob Casey with Moto and Mata at Finschaffen"
Hill, Fred
1944
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