IDNO

T.151697.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.

Bibliographical reference: Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p. 19. This extract comes from a children's book, written about a boy named Kaleku and his family in Gumine.: "Almost every day Erita helped her mother with women's work. Together they weeded the garden, tended the green leafy vegetables and built up the loose earth mounds around the young kau – kau plants – a kind of sweet potato." [KK 17/08/2022]