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[Joan and Evan R. Stanley, with Evan wearing expedition clothing, New Guinea]

[Evan R. Stanley with unidentified village children, New Guinea]

[Joan and Neville Stanley with unidentified female domestic worker, Port Moresby, New Guinea, ca. 1920]

[Portrait of Joan Stanley, New Guinea, ca. 1916]

[Street scene, Papua New Guinea, early 1920s?]

Cannibals were most interested in the gramaphone and said that there must be a "master stop along bokis", Bulolo, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1933 / Mr. Sturkey

View of both European and native dwellings, New Caledonia, ca. 1870s / Allan Hughan

Girls sitting under a banyan tree at the village of Vureas, Vanua Lava, Banks Islands, 1906 / J.W. Beattie

Portrait of John Gould with a specimen of Count Raggi's Bird of Paradise, 1878 / H.R. Robertson

Unidentified village, New Guinea, n.d

Unidentified village, built over water, New Guinea, n.d

People on canoe, New Guinea, c1893 to ?