IDNO

T.151777.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "242. S.P. New Guinea. Gumine. 35 K." [Poignant's manuscript]
"21. Jeep on road - bridge over gorge." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

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

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.151771.RPT - T.151794.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/130.

Facebook: Image published ton PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 26/02/2023 with the caption: "Jeep on bridge over gorge somewhere in Simbu, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
770 Likes, 66 comments including:
"Am pretty sure this is the same vehicle that you'd use for clinic runs to Gembogl. See one of your pics from Kundiawa nursing days." (Tama Hezakie)
"Definitely Gonule. My turf is the headwaters." (Sam Jay Kaupa)
"Definitely seen this car many many times, in those gone by days. Every one calls it Edmin car." (Kulame Bucker)
"Those blue Landovers and later cruisers gave authority to the administration in those days." (Wane Bea)
"That's in my village SNK in olivi wara ever nice bridge." (Nuwabo Man)
"It seems Sikola Nule Bridge just before the TSC China that based n sealed the Gumine road." (John Kalu)
"Most Govt vehicles, DOW, Health, PNGEC, Ambulance, Police, Army and others those years were in HJ47 either as an open back Toyota landcruiser or hardtop troop carrier model." (John Tinah)
Other commenters suggested possible locations of a crossing near Sumburu Mission before Womatne Catholic Mission and that the vehicle was a toyota L /cruiser HJ47. [KK 01/03/2023]

Publication: Image published in Adams, G. Kernohan, K. Bell, E. and Ovens, G. 2023. 'Anthropologists and Photographers: The Poignant and Elliott Collections'. MAA Digital Lab blog post with the caption "Figure 6. A Toyota Land Cruiser being driven over a bridge in Papua New Guinea. Photographed by Axel and Roslyn Poignant, 1969. Poignant Collection. MAA T.151777.RPT." [source: https://www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2023/07/11/anthropologists-and-photographers-on-the-poignant-and-elliott-photographic-collections/ KK 14/08/2023]