IDNO

T.150831.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 215. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"12. Dancers of the lakatoi ceremony." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of five people dancing as part of a ceremony for lakatoi (double hulled sailing boats) at Hanuabada. The dancers are wearing colourful decorative clothing around their necks and waists. The leading man has a headband of yellow feathers and is playing a slit drum. [KK 07/07/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby; Hanuabada

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.150810.RPT - T.150833.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/91.