IDNO

T.150889.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "217. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"13. cu [close up] rolling string on knee." [Poignant's typed text]

Close up of a woman at the Kundiawa market pulling a piece of string taut as she rolls it along her leg, part of the process of making bilums [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.150882.RPT - T.150904.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/94.