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Man of Evese [pointing a bow and arrow at the sky, with village in background]

Mountain types [two girls standing with their arms folded]

Man of Inauaia, Mekeo / Frank Hurley

Types from villages of Evese, Ononge [close up of man with a beard]

Mekeo / Frank Hurley

Bioto [close up of woman's face with flowers in her hair and a bead necklace] Frank Hurley

Girls from Ononge, mountain types, 1921

Bella Vista, mountain types

Ian R. Carroll / Don Murray

Hanuabada [man with flowers in his hair]

Types from villages of Evese, Ononge [Caucasian man, possibly Frank Hurley, in a safari suit with a Papuan man]

Widow of Vilirupu [woman wearing grass shawl, skirt and beaded jewellery] Frank Hurley