IDNO

T.151728.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "241.a. S.P. New Guinea. Gumine. 35mm. Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"3 to 10. Old Dai in cassowary plumes with white face making fire by the pulling of a cane under a piece of split wood over tinder. No 7. shows the smoke." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Dai

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.151723.RPT - T.151746.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/128.

Publication: Similar images published in Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.9. [KK 17/08/2022]

Bibliographical reference: Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p. 8. This extract comes from a children's book, written about a boy named Kaleku and his family in Gumine: "Next the old man wanted to smoke his pipe.
'Have you any matches?' Kaleku asked?
'Don't you learn anything at school?' demanded Dai. 'How would you manage on your own in the bush without matches?' And he sent Kaleku to find some dry kindling.
'The trouble with Grandfather,' Kaleku said to himself, 'is that he takes so long to get started.'
Daid split the end of a hardwood stick, and, keeping the split open with a peg, held it firmly on the kindling with his foot. Looping a length of cane under the wood, he rapidly pulled it backwards and forwards until the glowing powder fell on to the kindling and it began to smoulder.
'Blow, blow!' he cried.
In a moment the fire was alight and the old man began to smoke." [KK 17/08/2022]