IDNO

T.151843.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 244. New Guinea. - Gumine. Ekta. 35mm." [Poignant's manuscript]
"18. Woman ill in plane ? Omkolai [sic 'Omkalai'] to Kundiawa." [Poignant's typed text]

Two women, including Roslyn Poignant wearing a green hat, and a man in the back of a small plane flying to Kundiawa. One of the women is being transported to hospital. [KK 18/08/2022]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Roslyn Poignant

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.151841.RPT - T.151864.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/133.

Image published ton PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 20/02/2023 with the caption: "Roslyn Poignant (the photographer's wife) cares for a sick woman on an emergency flight from Omkolai to Kundiawa, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant."
331 Likes, 6 comments. [KK 01/03/2023]