IDNO
Doc.519
Description
Correspondence, notes, and drafts relating to Roslyn and Axel Poignant's trip to Papua New Guinea, 1969.
1. Copy of typescript letter from Roslyn Poignant to Harry and Ann, Port Moresby, dated 8th August 1969, relating to their never - published children’s book Tama's Quest.
2. Three pages of typescript and printed copies of notes titled 'Rough sequence of events - Bride 'price' exchange ceremony Gumine - Central Highlands of New Guinea.
3. Issue of the newsletter Man in New Guinea, Vol. 5 No. 3 September 1973, which includes a review of Roslyn and Axel Poignant's children's book Kaleku (1972) by Marilyn Strathern (p. 9-10).
Place
Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea
Source
Poignant, Roslyn
Date
1969
Keywords
Photographs
Author
Poignant, Roslyn
Events
Context (Other)
This record was made as part of the Poignant Project (2022 - 2023) to catalogue and digitise around 17,500 photographs and associated archives which came into the care of MAA as the Poignant bequest in 2021.
17/05/2023
Created by: Kirsty Kernohan on 17/05/2023
Context (Found together / assemblage)
The items in this record were found together in a yellow folder now numbered C1024/4 (photographs container number) as part of the Poignant bequest, 2021.
17/05/2023
Created by: Kirsty Kernohan on 17/05/2023
Description (Physical description)
Correspondence, notes, and drafts relating to Roslyn and Axel Poignant's trip to Papua New Guinea, 1969.
1. Copy of typescript letter from Roslyn Poignant to Harry and Ann, Port Moresby, dated 8th August 1969, relating to their never - published children’s book Tama's Quest.
2. Three pages of typescript and printed copies of notes titled 'Rough sequence of events - Bride 'price' exchange ceremony Gumine - Central Highlands of New Guinea.
3. Issue of the newsletter Man in New Guinea, Vol. 5 No. 3 September 1973, which includes a review of Roslyn and Axel Poignant's children's book Kaleku (1972) by Marilyn Strathern (p. 9-10).
17/05/2023
Created by: Kirsty Kernohan on 17/05/2023
FM:260337
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