IDNO

T.152109.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 252. New Guinea. Sepik - Angoram - Wewak. Lae. 35mm. Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
"9, 10, 11, 12. artifacts from Wewak RC mission store. No provenance. Seated female figure." [Poignant's typed text]

A Sepik human female figure with black and white paint on her face and body, dressed in a fibre skirt. [KK 22/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Momase Region; East Sepik Province; Wewak District; Wewak; Wewak Roman Catholic Mission store

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.152103.RPT - T.152127.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/144.