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Motuan woman dancer wearing a grass skirt, Port Moresby, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery

Bare tree trunks amidst ash and pumice, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Lakatoi returned with cargo from trading voyage to west, Tahira, Papua, 1922 / Sarah Chinnery

FINSCHHAFEN AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1943-11-04. MEMBERS OF THE 4TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD BAKERY UNLOADING A BAKERS OVEN FROM AN AMPHIBIOUS "DUKW" PREPARATORY TO ESTABLISHING A NEW BAKERY IN THE AREA

Banyan tree, Fiji, 1994 / Peter Dombrovskis

New Guinea flowers in a round bowl on a Trobriand Island stool, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Leo Brown[?] standing with New Guineans in front of aircraft, New Guinea, c1932 to 1933

Two New Guinean women playing cricket with onlookers in background and one European man in foreground, Port Moresby, New Guinea, c1929 to 1932

Group of men sitting on verandah, from left two unidentified men, Harry Jones and Eric Gaude, at Harry Jones house, Baiune, New Guinea, c1929 to 1932

Iuri man, Green River sub-district, Sepik district, [Papua New Guinea], 1954

[Artifacts,1961]

Aerial view of Western Highlands, [Papua New Guinea, 1963?]