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Large group of Kanak men and women seated posing with a small number of Europeans on side of hill with pine trees in background, New Caledonia, 1870s / Allan Hughan

Suva from the hospital, Fiji, 1929 / C.M. Yonge

[Men from the Administration Works Department working on the new Wewak to Dagua Road, East Sepik, New Guinea] Australian News and Information Bureau photograph by W. Brindle

View of Suva harbour from the hospital, Fiji, 1929 / C.M. Yonge

Kanak men performing a ceremony involving weapons, New Caledonia, ca. 1870s / Allan Hughan

Kanak woman standing with pipe in mouth, New Caledonia, ca. 1870s / Allan Hughan

J. L. Taylor making first contact in the mid Wahgi, April 1933 / Michael Leahy

Archbishop Mowll at the mess with Bishop David Hand, District Officer Fred Kaad and Roger Claridge, Saiho, Papua New Guinea, 1951 / Albert Speer

Nursing mission sister, Frank Mack and another agricultural officer at the airstrip at Cape Gloucester, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1951 / Albert Speer

Bishop David Hand and District Commissioner Sid Elliot-Smith with the assembled staff of the hospital at Saiho, Papua New Guinea, 1951 / Albert Speer

Sepik River man offering a mummified human head for trade, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1951 / Albert Speer

Albert Speer and Benny Heia of Kerema, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1951 / Albert Speer