IDNO

T.150879.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "217. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"2. Chimbu woman." [Poignant's typed text]

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 on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 13/08/2023 with the caption: "Chimbu woman at Kundiawa market, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
83 Likes, 5 comments including:
"This beautiful Simbu lady demonstrates the fashion they developed by making use of old coloured material to adorn their hair/head with the iconic bilum bilas forming the central item of her bilas." (Deveni Temu). [KK 15/08/2023]