Roslyn Poignant | |
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| Born | Roslyn Betty Izatt 12 May 1927 |
| Died | 7 November 2019 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | University of Sydney |
| Occupation | photographic anthropologist |
| Spouse | Axel Poignant |
Roslyn Betty Poignant (12 May 1927 – 7 November 2019) was an Australian photographic anthropologist who collaboratively published, interpreted, and repatriated her husband Axel Poignant's photos of indigenous peoples from Arnhem Land, Papua New Guinea, and Tahiti. Poignant was involved in photographing and writing about museum collections of the material culture of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia. Poignant is known for her finding, researching and repatriating an 1885 photograph taken in Paris by anthropological photographer Roland Bonaparte of three Queensland indigenous persons taken to form part of an international touring troupe, for P. T. Barnum's circus. These were people presumed lost to the Manbarra of Palm Island[1][2]