IDNO

T.150921.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "218. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"1-8 Men dancing. Kerowagi in Chimbu district. No 7. v. good." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of men from Kerowagi wearing feather head dresses, white body paint, and fur necklaces, dancing as part of a ceremony. Poignant describes the ceremony as a Sing Sing to celebrate the completion of a new house [KK 04/08/2022].

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Chimbu; Kerowagi

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.150905.RPT - T.150927.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/95.