IDNO

T.151696.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "240. S.P. New Guinea. 35mm. Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"37, 38, 39. Dupes of 1 to 9 woman and child in sweet potato garden." [Poignant's typed text]

Kuma-ire and Erita, her daughter, working in a sweet potato garden outside Gumine, overlooking Marigl Gorge. [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

Kuma-ire; Erita

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.151652.RPT - T.151674.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/126.

Publication: Similar images published in Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.10, 41. [KK 16/08/2022]

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]