IDNO

T.151811.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 243. New Guinea. - Gumine. 35mm." [Poignant's manuscript]
"17 to 20. ditto [hamlet on ridge Gumine sub-district, some with Erita and Martin in them]." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Kaleku (also known as Martin); Erita

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre September 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.151795.RPT - T.151816.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/131.

Publication: Similar images published in Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.4, 42, 43. [KK 18/08/2022]

Bibliographical Reference: Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.4. This extract comes from a children's book, written about a boy named Kaleku and his family in Gumine: "The Chimbu build their houses along the tops of ridges that jut into the valleys. Kaleku's grandfather has often told him how, in the time before European patrol came to Gumine, the people on the neighbouring ridges were enemies and a sharp look – out had to be kept to prevent surprise attacks.
The people plant forest trees, tall casuarinas and clumps of feathery bamboo near the houses because they give shade and are useful. And they make their vegetable gardens even on the steepest slopes because there is not much flat land near Gumine." [KK 18/08/2022]