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Michael Leahy in the Wahgi Valley, 1934 / Michael Leahy

Portrait of William Dobell sketching an unidentified man in New Guinea, 1949?

Gentleman wearing riding clothes seated in his wife's sitting room which is decorated in the English style but includes tapa cloth wall hangings, Fiji, 1918

Forest buttress, Fiji, 1994 / Peter Dombrovskis

A village scene on Mailu Island, Papua New Guinea, June 1921 / Frank Hurley

Men in two lines inside the great kau ravi of Kaimari, gulf of Papua, New Guinea, ca. 1920s / Frank Hurley

Vaieki, the coxswain, in a field of lotuses on the shores of Lake Murray, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1920s / Frank Hurley

Charles Kingsford-Smith's Fokker FVIIB-3m monoplane, the Southern Cross turning in flight to land, Fiji, June 1928

View down the centre of the great kau ravi of Kaimari, Papua New Guinea, 1921? Frank Hurley

Papuans looking at first gramaphone, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, 1933 / Michael Leahy

Interieur d'une case a Lebouka, Iles Viti / dessine par L. Le Breton; lith. par P. Blanchard

Toubau, fils du Roi des Îles des Amis : Vouacécé habitant de Fidgi / Piron del. ; Copia Sculp. ; Dien scripsit