IDNO

T.151853.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 244. New Guinea. - Gumine. Ekta. 35mm." [Poignant's manuscript]
"29, 30, 31. Airstrip Kundiawa with Chimbu girls costume." [Poignant's typed text]

A large group of people standing beside a plane at Kundiawa airstrip, including three young women from Chimbu wearing belts, skirts, necklaces, and bilums (string bags). [KK 18/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands Region; Chimbu Province; Kundiawa district; Kundiawa [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.151841.RPT - T.151864.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/133.

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 19/02/2023 with the caption: "Kundiawa airstrip, Simbu, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
381 Likes, 12 comments including identifying the plane as a Twin Otter 100 Series. [KK 02/03/2023]