IDNO

T.150948.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "218. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"31 to 36. Goroka show doing a Cowa type dance ie mock battle. 31, 32, 33. Bena Bena dances. Prob. Saraufa Village. 33. m.s. of man running behind figures" [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Goroka; Saraufa; Benabena [Bena Bena]

Cultural Affliation

Benabena

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.150928.RPT - T.150951.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/96.
T.150946.RPT - T.151068.RPT were made at the 1969 Goroka show.

Context: The Goroka Show is a large annual gathering in Goroka, dating from circa 1956, with a large number of singsing groups attending to perform music and dance. Niles, D. 2013. "More Than a Half Century of the Goroka and Hagen Shows: The Evolution of a New Cultural Tradition" in IBS Journal of Business and Research. Vol 6. Papua New Guinea Institute of Business Studies. [KK 25/08/2022]