Explore items from Melanesia

Remains of a jetty with a woman carrying a loaded bag on her head, Rabaul Harbour, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Two women wearing grass skirts with a child, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

View across the harbour to the Beehives and Vulcan Island, Rabaul Harbour, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Treading cocoa beans, Karkar Island, New Guinea, 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

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

Chinatown area of Rabaul, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Flowers on a bush, New Guinea, ca. 1936 / Sarah Chinnery

Carved wooden seat from Sepik district, New Guinea, ca. 1929 / Sarah Chinnery

Two Papuan women wearing grass skirts standing on a jetty, Papua, ca. 1923 / Sarah Chinnery

Two nuns, Vunapope Sacred Heart Mission, Kokopo, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery

Man and a boy standing in a canoe leaning against long poles, Ramu River, New Guinea, 1935 / Sarah Chinnery

Twin plumes of smoke reflected in the harbour, Rabaul Harbour, New Guinea, 1937 / Sarah Chinnery