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Men of Mailu [elderly man sitting on wooden deck rolling fibrous material on his thigh] Frank Hurley

Men of Mailu [close up view of a man wearing a bead necklace] / Frank Hurley

Man of Ambasi, North Coast

Types from villages of Evese, Ononge [man squatting and holding a pig]

Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz, Sea Putat or Putat Laut, family Lecythidaceae, Papua New Guinea, 1916? Ellis Rowan

Types from the villages of Urama, Kinomere & Tovei [seated man with a tall mask behind him]

Mailu Island types [woman and child seated on the sand with the woman handbuilding a clay pot] Frank Hurley

Hanuabada [profile of a man's head]

Urama types, Delta Division [profile of man]

Mailu Island types [man in sleeping position on ground] / Frank Hurley

Widows of Hanuabada

A Boanai beauty, North Coast [wearing a grass skirt over her shoulder] Frank Hurley