IDNO

T.151379.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "230. S.P. New Guinea. Hagen. 1969. Ekta. 35mm." [Poignant's manuscript]
"35, 36, and 37. Tribesmen racing flat out. spears raised. knock over girl and man." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of men racing at the Mount Hagen show. They are wearing wide head dresses, ornaments, and leaves attached to their belts and holding long spears above their heads. [KK 12/08/2022]

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.151364.RPT - T.151388.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/113.

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]

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 21/02/2023 with the caption: "Warriors charging in full flight, Mt Hagen Show, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant.
208 Likes, 7 comments including:
"They're Ipili men, Porgera, you can easily tell by their long wig and spears." (Aken Puluku)
"These are Ipili wigmen of Porgera Enga Province." (Turuku Iyupe).
"These are Huli warriors from Tari in the Southern Highlands(now Hela). I remember the show committee engaged local tribesmen to build very long kunai thatched huts along the outside of the show ground fencing. Word went out of the Mt Hagen Show and tribesmen from all over the highlands came weeks early and stayed in those long huts preparing for the show. And the tourists that flocked in were hit with the brutal display of culture you wouldn’t find anywhere else on God’s earth." (Simon Peter Kewa). [KK 03/03/2023]