IDNO

T.150956.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "219. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. Kodachrome. Goroka." [Poignant's manuscript]
"6 - 11. Overexposed of following group [People from Omaura, Kianantu [sic 'Kainantu'] sub-district dancing. Tan and natural colour bilums. Headdresses of bark frame with black and rust designs, orange bird of paradise and yellow feathers. Men with boards on back made of rows of arrows - some with carved shields and gourds hanging down back. Shoulder arrow bilums] & 12." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Goroka; Kainantu; Omaura

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.150952.RPT - T.150975.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/97.

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]