IDNO

T.152233.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 254 A. New Guinea. Artifacts in Aust. Museum [Australian Museum] Sydney. Koda. 35mm." [Poignant's manuscript]
"33, 34. Board - flat figure. Papuan Gulf. 23cm (across hips) x 144cm. Purch. Col. J. Stacey. Aust Mus. No. E. 24477. For 33, 34 and 28. 29. 30. Ancestral tablets, boards found in men's cult houses of etc. Papuan Gulf (These are from East P. Gulf) Elema or at most westerly woman) - 'holao' and if so, some are merely decorative furnishing of men's cult houses - while others of same form are named sacred and associated with revelationary ritual. See D. Newton. Art styles of Papuan Gulf." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Oceania Australasia; Papua New Guinea; Australia; Gulf Province; Sydney; Australian Museum

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Colonel J. Stacey

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre November 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.152222.RPT - T.152243.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/149.