IDNO

T.151854.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 group of three women and two men and a plane at Kundiawa airstrip. The men are sitting inside the plane, one is in the cockpit, and the three women are standing in front of the plane wearing belts and 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 ton PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 21/02/2023 with the caption: "Chimbu girls at Kundiawa airstrip, 1969 (censored). Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
490 Likes, 17 comments. [KK 15/08/2023]