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Two Dukduks standing on a beach, Rabaul Harbour, New Guinea, 1929, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Man beside a fishing basket in the water with a man in a canoe nearby, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Frangipanni in a woven Buka basket, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Five laden women in Chinnery's garden, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936, 1 / Sarah Chinnery

Volcanic debris being shovelled out of a building onto a verandah, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Road gang who moved "sentinel" stones, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Group of men with shovels and wheelbarrows clearing a road, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

View of a crater with a mountain in the background, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Mr. C.J. Burch and the students who built the Chinnery house in Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1933 / Sarah Chinnery

Two Kukukuku men wearing long bark rain hoods with one scratching his ear, Salamaua, New Guinea, 1933, 2 / Sarah Chinnery

Line of women walking in the Corpus Christi Procession, Vunapope Sacred Heart Mission, Kokopo, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Palm trunk with a jetty in the distance, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery