IDNO

T.150928.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "218. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"13. Ros and ADC [Assistant District Commissioner] Brown in Hamlet on Muru ridge." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of three unnamed Papua New Guinea men, Roslyn Poignant, and Assistant District Commissioner Kenneth Brown in front of a thatched building in a hamlet on Muru ridge. [KK 04/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Muru Ridge

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Kenneth Arthur Brown; Roslyn Poignant

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.150928.RPT - T.150951.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/96.

Biographical information: Kenneth Arthur Brown was Assistant District Commissioner of Bougainville in 1967.
Stuart Doran (ed.) 2006. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy. Australia and New Guinea 1966 - 1969. Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. p.258. [source: https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/australia-and-papua-new-guinea-1966-1969.pdf KK 04/08/2022]an