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View of Salamaua from the mainland, Salamaua, New Guinea, 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

New Guinea flower, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Two men carrying pieces of meat on a pole, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery

Group of men at a laden trestle table, Boong, native market, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Double row of decorated dancers with person on right legs apart, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Outrigger canoe Lorengau, Manus Island, New Guinea, 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Ramu man aiming bow and arrow into river with a dog in the background, Ramu River [?], New Guinea, 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Group of people in a canoe with a palm tree in the foreground, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery

View towards the harbour from the Chinnery garden with a square pot and clamshell birdbath, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Several men with wheelbarrows at copper mine at Bootless Inlet [?], Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery

Three men with a bi-plane and mono plane in background, New Guinea, ca. 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Orokaiva in profile, wearing hornbill homicidal headdress, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery