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Malay child sitting on steps, Rabaul, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, approximately 1916

Tolai men dancing, New Britain Island, New Guinea, probably 1916

Coconut plantation, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, probably 1916

Young women showing her body marking, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, probably 1916

Man wearing a Baining dance head dress, East New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, probably 1916

Baining man wearing a dance head dress, East New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, probably 1916

Dukduk, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, probably 1916

Hospital wards to cater for casualties, Popondetta, Jan 1951, 2 / Albert Speer

Native patrolman outside the hospital, Rabaul, New Guinea, 1914

King of the Isle of Pines

A tabooed cocoa nut [i.e. coconut] tree, Isle of Pines

Pendamus [i.e. pandanus] tree, Isle of Pines