IDNO

T.151276.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "228. S.P. New Guinea. Hagen. 35mm. Kodachrome." [Poignant's manuscript]
'14. Magnificent girl with all red face, black beads round neck and hawk (?) feather headdress and dupe." [Poignant's typed text]

Portrait of a young woman from the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea at the Mount Hagen show. She is wearing a head dress of fur and feathers, belts, decorative neck and arm ornaments and red, black, white, and yellow facial paint. [KK 11/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands Region; Western Highlands Province; Mount Hagen

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

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.151276.RPT - T.151285.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/109.

They were moved to a new transparency sheet numbered C1021/109a due to lack of space. [KK 07/07/2022]

T.151266.RPT - T.151380.RPT and T.151398.RPT - T.151412.RPT were made at the 1969 Mount Hagen show.

Context: The Mount Hagen Show is a large annual gathering in Mount Hagen, dating from circa 1961, 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]