Revised ‘aboutness’ statement: This volume focused on inspections; villages, roads, fences, and general infrastructure. Patrol Officers took regular census of men, women, children, and infants; while cataloging marriage, death, general health and disease information. Minute information regarding family bonus, wages and payments (including other than money payments), building and bridge construction, carriers employed, police taken…
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Aboutness Statement Vincent Rojas
Aboutness statement: This patrol volume focuses on economic development such as roads (Tealands road), bridges, schools, cattle and poultry projects, farming, and gardening with test plots of various crops. Kiaps in this volume were to survey land for development while settling small village disputes. Along with daily tasks listed above, Kiaps politically educated villagers in self-government…
Cultural Context SHD Pangia Vincent Rojas
Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands District Pangia seems to be one of the most remote areas of exploration when looking at the diary’s and patrol reports of the Kiaps during the years of 1969-1970. For one, the patrol officers always seem to note the rainy weather and the lack of proper roads to access certain…