IDNO

T.151154.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "225. S.P. New Guinea. Gumine. 35mm Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"5 and 6. Dirima airstrip." [Poignant's typed text]

Two young people looking over Dirima airstrip. [KK 10/08/2022]

View of what is the current Dirima Aid Post looking down. The village of Talbakul is right at the edge of the then Dirima airstrip. [Knowledge shared by Bob Drikori of Talbakul village via Taim Bipo Facebook group, JD 28/07/2023]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 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.151148.RPT - T.151172.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/105.

Facebook Publication: Similar image published in 'PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo' group, 19 February 2023, and captioned: "Dirima airstrip, Chimbu, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
221 Likes; 6 Comments, including by Bob Drikori who writes "The current Dirima Aid Post looking down. My village Talbakul right at the edge of the then Dirima airstrip." [Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/271260592950820/search/?q=poignant, JD 26/07/2023]