IDNO

T.148915.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 15 Raiatea. Making Medicine, Humete. 35mm.
Sequence for making emdicine [sic. medicine] runs 27 2o [sic. to] 37 then 1 to 8. See notes for details.
19. Girls pound tiare flowers in small wooden humete made of miro wood." [Poignant's manuscript]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; French Polynesia; Society Islands; Raiatea

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre March 1969

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.148696.RPT - T.152693.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1021/.

T.148904.RPT - T.148927.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/10.

Context: Tiare apetahi (lobiace flower of the Campanulaceae family) has a distinctive shape, with a half-corolla with five petals. It is the endemic flower of Raiatea Island, in the Leeward Islands archipelago of French Polynesia, and only grows in a specific place on the island, the Temehani Mount. [Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/moana/tiare-flower-symbol-of-polynesia/, CO 28/06/2021]