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Portrait of indigenous women with tattoos, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1890

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"Tatooed girls" posed against backdrop, decorated with traditional items including bags used to hold babies. Formerly the first resident missionary on the South Sea island of Niue, Lawes transferred to Papua New Guinea in 1874 until his retirement in 1906. Lawes was a pioneer missionary photographer, and the first permanent non-indigenous resid... Papua New Guinea
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circa 1890
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Papua New Guinea
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