IDNO

T.150895.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "217. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"19. cu [close up] of same [older man with bottle tops in nose holes]." [Poignant's typed text]

Portrait of an older man at the Kundiawa market with jewellery and a headpiece made from repurposed objects including bottle tops. He is described by Poignant as bilased (decorated or adorned). [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.