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Scenes at Ononge [Looking down to a collection of buildings and a church overlooking a valley] Frank Hurley

Dubu, Hanuabada [village scene showing four carved wooden poles supporting a platform] Frank Hurley

Scenes at Ononge [A village with church in the clouds] Frank Hurley

Apprentice mechanics examine a gearbox at the training centre set up to teach indigenes the necessary skills needed for working on the big copper mining project on Bougainville in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea / Australian Information Service photograph

Mountain stream, Ononge / Frank Hurley

Rocks going into a sample crusher at the big copper mining project at Panguna on Bougainville in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea / Australian Information Service photograph

Men of the Kieta area in Bougainville assembled at the Administration District Office for a meeting with government officials / Australian Information Service photograph by W. Brindle

Moto ni Meke

head, club

ornament

adze

pipe