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Mother Mountain, with moored ships and a man standing on a log in the foreground, Rabaul Harbour, New Guinea, ca. 1929, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Sarah Chinnery in her garden, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936, 1

Sarah Chinnery crossing a river, New Guinea, 1933

Two men in the Chinnery garden, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

De Havilland Moth VH-UQP alongside a bullock wagon, Wau, New Guinea, 1933 / Sarah Chinnery

Man standing behind a bowl of flowers in a garden, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Greenhouse in the Botanical Gardens [?], Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Two Ramu Delta men in profile, one is wearing a cuscus fur headdress, Awar, Sepik River, New Guinea, 1935, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Boy with a bird on his head, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Two tall palm trees with a headland covered in palm trees in the middle distance, Madang, New Guinea, 1933, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Aiau, the Chinnery's garden boy with a live butterfly in his hair, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Ramu River man holding a bow and barbed arrows, Ramu River, New Guinea, 1935, 3 / Sarah Chinnery