Explore items from Melanesia

Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Samoa

Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866 :"Comment, antropophage, ... tu te presentes dans une societe comme celle-lui? ..." "Tu ne manges pas les hommes, toi ... mais tu n'en es pas moins sans pitie pour eux ... tu les plumes! ..." Mon. Martinet, 172 r. Rivoli et 41 r. Vivienne / Lith. Destouches, 28 r. Paradis, Pre Paris. [ca 1852]

Sepik River Trading Company plane, in front from left - C Brush, Morton Johnston and B G Hall, Madang, Papua New Guinea

Mt Tavurvur (Matupit) in the background, with a Qantas Empire Airways aeroplane in the foreground, Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Crowd, awaiting the arrival of the Qantas Empire Airways' DC-3, VH-EAP, airstrip, Kavieng Island, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Qantas Captain W Forgan-Smith, First Officer L Purkiss, Flight Engineer A Nicol and Purser I Little, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea

Mt Tavurvur (Matupit) in the background, with a Qantas Empire Airways, aeroplane in the foreground, Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Reverend Keleher and local people on a Qantas Empire Airways' flight to Manus Island, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

Signpost, Ile Nou, New Caledonia

View of Noumea, New Caledonia

Unidentified building, Noumea, New Caledonia

View over Noumea, New Caledonia