IDNO

T.151693.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "240. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"34, 35, 36. Martin playing Jew's harp." [Poignant's typed text]

Kaleku (also known as Martin), a boy from Gumine, playing a bamboo mouth harp to a group of pigs. [KK 17/08/2022]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Kaleku (also known as Martin)

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.151675.RPT - T.151698.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/126.

Publication: Similar image published in Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.10. [KK 17/08/2022]

Bibliographical Reference: Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.10. This extract comes from a children's book, written about a boy named Kaleku and his family in Gumine: "Most days Kaleku minded the pigs. He had to make sure that none of them got into a neighbour's garden. If one did, the neighbour would kill it and Father would be very angry.
He passed the time by playing a bamboo mouth harp; the pigs seemed to like the sound. If they wandered out of sight he called:
'Ma-a-bu ma-a-bu
A-rr-k a-rr-k m-a-bu,'
again and again until they came back." [KK 17/08/2022]

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 23/02/2023 with the caption: "Kaleku playing a mouth harp while minding the pigs, Gumine, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
This extract comes from KALEKU the children's book, written by the Poignants about Kaleku and his family in Gumine"
491 Likes, 18 comments including one that identified the place as Gawale. [KK 01/03/2023]