IDNO

T.151131.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "224. S.P. New Guinea. Gumine. 35mm Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"19 and 20. Old woman and young one working on bilum [string bag], threaded with palm leaf spacers to keep the work even." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands Region; Chimbu Province; Gumine District; Gumine [Simbu Province]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre September 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.151124.RPT - T.151147.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/104.

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 18/02/2023 with the caption: "Gumine bilum makers, Chimbu, 1969 (censored). "Old woman and young one working on bilum [string bag], threaded with palm leaf spacers to keep the work even." [Poignant's typed text]. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
145 Likes, 6 comments including:
"Women were wearing western-style clothes like this since the missionaries first arrived in PNG the 1880s. Many people kept wearing traditional bilas especially in remote areas will into the 1980s. This photo was taken before there was a road to Gumine. The village chief had walked all the way to Kundiawa 15 years earlier and was one of the first to bring back western-style influences to Gumine. It is described in Poignant's book KALEKU which includes this photo. There is no reason to think it is fake. [...] it was a time of transition which is what the book is all about." (Peter Russell Kranz). [KK 02/03/2023]