Australian anthropologist and historian (1927–2019)
Roslyn Poignant
Born
Roslyn Betty Izatt
12 May 1927
Sydney
Died
7 November 2019 (2019-11-08) (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]
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Roslyn Betty Poignant (12 May 1927 – 7 November 2019) was an Australian photographic anthropologist who collaboratively published, interpreted, and repatriated...
in 1945. His second wife died in 1953, and on 24 October 1953 Poignant married Roslyn Betty Izatt, a film technician, in Sydney. He had known her since...
Fields of Anthropology. New York: Falstaff Press, 1937. vol. 2, p. 219. RoslynPoignant: Oceanic Mythology. Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967, p. 69. Friedrich, Ratzel...
Peoples of Asia and Oceania, Infobase Publishing, 2009; ISBN 1438119135 RoslynPoignant, Oceanic mythology: the myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia,...
creator of Topo Gigio. Jean Piqué, 84, French rugby union player. RoslynPoignant, 92, Australian photographic anthropologist. Nik Powell, 69, British...
the body was discovered in a local funeral parlour. Anthropologist RoslynPoignant was able to identify the body and his remains were returned to his...
It was cited in Judith Wright's The Cry for the Dead (1981) and in RoslynPoignant's Professional Savages (2004). Gordon Reid's That Unhappy Race, (Melbourne...
(1955). "The lightning man in Australian mythology". Man. 55: 129–30. Poignant, Roslyn (1967). Oceanic mythology : the myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia...
2021. Roslyn Jolly (editor). Robert Louis Stevenson: South Sea Tales. The World's Classics. Oxford University Press. 1996. See "Introduction". Roslyn Jolly...
commit the act he was accused of, but also crippled him in other ways. Roslyn Siegel includes Tom Robinson as an example of the recurring motif among...
Camera Lincoln Center (nomination 2007) Susan Braun Award (winner 2006) Roslyn Sulcas, from The New York Times, thought "Austin McCormick, who runs Company...
Award in the role. Beginning in 2023, Peters plays the recurring role of Roslyn in the Apple TV+ comedy series High Desert. Peters made her West End debut...
Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville, QLD. Australia. Poignant, Roslyn (2004). Professional Savages, Captive Lives and Western Spectacle....
Diaries : translated from the Lithuanian original by the author Adolfas Mekas. Roslyn Bernstein (First ed.). Annandale, N.Y. ISBN 978-0-9763967-0-3. OCLC 1012125226...
"Native title granted on Magnetic Island". news.com.au. 2 August 2012. Poignant, Roslyn (2004). Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle....
Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence. Collections Council of Australia (Roslyn Russell and Kylie Winkworth) (2009). Significance 2.0. Hagan, Jim; Wells...
to England, and died there at his Oxford home on 2 September 1923. Poignant, Roslyn (2004). Professional Savages, Captive Lives and Western Spectacle....
Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010: Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York 2009: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts 2008 TR3...
2. Retrieved 13 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia. Poignant, Roslyn (2004), Professional savages : captive lives and western spectacle...
showed him sleep and taught him how to make the dawn. Dixon (1916). Poignant, Roslyn (1967). Oceanic Mythology: The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia...
2022. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia. Poignant, Roslyn (2004). Professional Savages. New Haven: Yale. "CRUELTY TO BLACKS"...
Collection Grafton: Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 2005. Poignant, Roslyn, "Surveying the Field of View: the Making of the R.A.I. Photographic...
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