IDNO

T.153767.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card for T.151733.RPT: "241.a. S.P. New Guinea. Gumine. 35mm. Koda." [Poignant's manuscript]
13. Old Dai with hands on bows and arrows, smokes pipe." [Poignant's typed text]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands Region; Chimbu Province; Gumine District; Gumine

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Dai

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre September 1969

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.153759.RPT - T.153777.RPT and P.156395.RPT - P.156397.RPT were located in a wrapped paper package numbered C1023/1.

Publication: Similar image published in Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p.9. [KK 17/08/2022]

Bibliographical reference: Poignant, Axel and Roslyn. 1972. Kaleku. London: Angus and Robertson, p. 8. This extract comes from a children's book, written about a boy named Kaleku and his family in Gumine: "Next the old man wanted to smoke his pipe.
'Have you any matches?' Kaleku asked?
'Don't you learn anything at school?' demanded Dai. 'How would you manage on your own in the bush without matches?' And he sent Kaleku to find some dry kindling.
'The trouble with Grandfather,' Kaleku said to himself, 'is that he takes so long to get started.'
Dai split the end of a hardwood stick, and, keeping the split open with a peg, held it firmly on the kindling with his foot. Looping a length of cane under the wood, he rapidly pulled it backwards and forwards until the glowing powder fell on to the kindling and it began to smoulder.
'Blow, blow!' he cried.
In a moment the fire was alight and the old man began to smoke." [KK 17/08/2022]

Facebook: Image published on PNG, Photo History, Taim Bipo group on 24/02/2023 with the caption: "Old Dai smoking a pipe, Gumine, Chimbu, 1969. Photo by Axel Poignant, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Dai features in the children's book KALEKU, by Axel and Roslyn Poignant, published by Angus and Robertson in 1972. [...]"
93 Likes, 1 comment. [KK 01/03/2023]