IDNO

T.150832.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 215. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"13. On the boat itself." [Poignant's typed text]

A man performing as part of a ceremony for lakatoi (double hulled sailing boats) at Hanuabada. He has a red patterned skirt around his waist, is wearing a green hat, and is holding a drum. [KK 07/07/2022]

The man is wearing a black and white barkcloth? belt with a red loincloth, a green hair wig with patterned forehead band,leaf arm ornaments, bead chest ornaments, and nose, neck and wrist ornaments. He is holding a drum and carrying a bilum bag. The man is smoking a cigarette. [updated with information from the Eda Gabu Facebook group, JD 24/07/2023]

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.

Facebook Publication: Image published in 'Eda Gabu - Old Pictures', 15 July 2023, and captioned: "A man performing as part of a ceremony for lakatoi (double hulled sailing boats) at Hanuabada. He has a red patterned skirt around his waist, is wearing a green hat, and is holding a drum", 1969. (Photographers description). Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
Likes: 56; Comments 4. [Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/262009843878600/search/?q=poignant, JD 10/07/2023]