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Portrait of the anthropologist Professor Hortense Powdermaker from Queens, New York, in New Guinea, 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Vulcan Island one hour before the eruption of 29 May, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Vulcan Island, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Warriors in the Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, 1969 / Axel Poignant

Fijians observing refuelling of The Southern Cross plane at Naselai Beach, Fiji, 7 June 1928

Portrait of James Warner, Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Harry Lyon in front of The Southern Cross plane before leaving Suva, June 1928

Manau, the Chinnery's house boy, firing a bow and arrow, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936, 1 / Sarah Chinnery

Boys play at fishing, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1930 / Sarah Chinnery

Mother Mountain, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1930 / Sarah Chinnery

Bush men at celebrations for Kings George VI's birthday, at Salamaua, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Asavia [?] with a spear over his shoulder and a kapkap in his hair, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Papuan woman and a girl wearing grass skirts, Port Moresby, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery