IDNO

T.150794.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 214. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and so on to 33 and end of roll - the canoes from Milne Bay racing in Port Moresby harbour. 19 to 24 particularly good of canoes." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre August 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.150787.RPT - T.150809.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/90.

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 29/03/2023 with the caption: "Canoe from Milne Bay racing in Port Moresby harbour, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
142 Likes, 17 comments including:
"That's a gebo from the Bay area." (Goini Lydia Loko)
"My Father in Law was here in 1969 to do Canoe Racing. He may very well have been part of this?" and "my Father in Law was Hehonah Sakaia (late) from Ganaibeu." (Paul F Ali)
"all these coastline is now reclaim land..." (Graham Numa)
Other commentators noted that the canoes came to Port Moresby with Cecil Abel for the South Pacific Games in 1969 and that participants camped at Gabutu near Kila police station. [KK 05/04/2023]