IDNO

T.150924.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "218. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"9. Women dancing." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of women from Kerowagi wearing white tops and colourful skirts and carrying decorated water vessels made of bamboo, 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.

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 17/2/2023 with the caption: "Kerowagi women dancers, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He comments "A group of women from Kerowagi wearing white tops and colourful skirts and carrying decorated water vessels made of bamboo, dancing as part of a ceremony."
110 Likes, 4 comments. [KK 28/02/2023]