IDNO

T.150878.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "217. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"1. Women in market, Kundiawa." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of six women at the Kundiawa market, two are making bilum [string bags]. [KK 04/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Kundiawa; Kundiawa market

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.150858.RPT - T.150881.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/93.

Facebook: image published in 'PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo' group, 22 February 2023, and captioned: "Women making bilums at Kundiawa market, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
95 Likes. [KK 15/08/2023]