IDNO

T.151136.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "224. S.P. New Guinea. Gumine. 35mm Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"21 to 25. Women sit on palm leaf mat and dye bundles of string with coloured dyes made from bashing leaf on stone." [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 the "PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo" group on 18/02/2023 with the caption "Gumine woman demonstrating how to dye threads and fibres with different colours made from crushed leaves, Chimbu 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
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