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Woman wearing a grass skirt with nets drying and village houses behind, Hanuabada, Papua, 1921, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

View of the harbour and the Beehives from Chinnery's front garden, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Two Kukukuku men wearing long bark rain hoods, Salamaua, New Guinea, 1933 / Sarah Chinnery

Chinnery's house, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Sarah Chinnery with a man crossing a wire rope bridge, Bulolo River [?], New Guinea, 1933

Governor General inspecting assembled police, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Flowering shrub at Botanical Gardens [?], Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Man standing beside a house ladder and a carved piece of timber, Tambunum, Sepik River, New Guinea, 1935, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Three weeks after the eruption, Vulcan Island, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Woman holding a baby in front of her, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Malaguna Road after rainfall, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Looking down on two women in a laden outrigger canoe, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1929, 2 / Sarah Chinnery