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Groups include: Biokolo girls waiting for the dance; women of an inland village on east bank of Vailala river; Tuka, students and their wives at Biokolo; ?Muru bush men and women; Boys' Brigade at Biokolo; Boys' Brigade and boat crew at Orokolo; LMS canoe and boys; missionaries on veranda outside mission house, Port Moresby; group of children [possibly Kaile] two men with ceremonial masks [possibly Orokolo]; church members, Kwato; chief with bag over left shoulder; New Guinea troops in ceremonial dress; gathering for a feast; Piri, Rarotongan teacher with children outside his house, Boera; boys brigade outside mission house, Biokolo; three men at stages of initiation into their tribe, one with shell on arm showing he is in search of a wife; native congregation, Milne Bay; New Guinea children swimming; children at Jokea; Kabadi "natives" in Central Division; group of teachers; women on boat in lagoon, Vailupu; Samoan teachers, wives and others including ?Mano and ?Rarootongo; [Henry Percy] Schlencker and "boys"; "native" New Guinea teachers; [James] Chalmers [and others] in Papuan canoe; group of missionaries and indigenous children [possibly at site of indigenous religious significance]; group of children outside hut; boys playing cricket at Millport; teachers working in Western part of Elema and Namau districts; three Millport Harbour mission children [female]; boys on beach; [James] Chalmers, Albert Pearse, [Charles William] Abel; [Harry Moore] Dauncey and [Frederick William] Walker at South Cape, 1890. People include: young man at ?Orokolo with man and children outside dwellings; elderly man in canoe with reflection in river; individual portraits; Biga and wife; New Guinea grandmother and child; [John Henry] Holmes with two indigenous "chums"; Ruatoka; man from Bamu River district drinking from hollow cane; widow from Kapa Kapa district; portrait of Papuan man in ceremonial dress; Paulo; man and girl in traditional dress from Delena; Chief at Maipani, a former 'cannibal', "the lobes of his ears are 8 inches long"; [William George] Lawes. Events include: Christmas day feast at Biokolo; social feast on coast line, viewed from afar, with Chalmers, Walker, Abel and Dauncey present; tug of war between Mailu island and mainland; ceremonial dance before pigs; [William James Viritahitemauvai] Saville at ceremony opening canal from Millport Harbour to ?Mayu [?Mailu] Bay; Activities include: house building; playing cricket [possibly Kwato]; building a wharf, Millport indigenous man sleeping [against wood pole pillow]; children fishing; boys dance, Port Moresby; family making sago from tree; men smoking and "using lime", Jokea; preaching from "Olive Branch" ship at Waga Waga, Milne Bay; boat building; opening of Rich's house. Places or buildings include: Kwato; ?Eravo bush village on Vailala river; ?Koruki in Purari delta; boat house for Rev Abel's whale boat at Kwato, indigenous boys outside; first mission house, Kwato; missionaries in dining space at rear of mission house, Port Moresby; large dubu [dwelling for men in Western part of Papuan Gulf; church and house, Jokea; Tamate's grave; Tamate's home at Daru; native church and school, Darnley Island; Japanese burying ground, Thursday Island Also includes: still-life collection of goods [possibly tribute]; boats; booth for dead body, men and women seated outside; canoe, Millport Harbour; agriculture, Jokea; "goodwill" ship; Pictures taken by/received from: Nicholas St Austell studio.
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E1, E5, E8-11, E13-16, E19, E20-1, E23-8, E30-1, E33, E35, E38-43
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