IDNO

T.150800.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]

A group of four men paddling a canoe from Milne Bay called 'Lekaleka' during races at Port Moresby. [KK 29/06/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby; Milne Bay

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 Publication: Image published in 'PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo' group, 30 March 2023, and captioned: "Four crew of the LEKALEKA canoe from Milne Bay racing on Port Moresby Harbour, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
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