People and places, Moru district, by Rev Herbert Alfred Brown and Rev H Gordon Price.

Groups include: men with tractor; missionary's wife being taken to mission launch by canoe; schoolchildren at Moru; children washing theor hands, Port Moresby. People include: Rev Gordon Price being pushed over Delta mud after visiting village [reproduced in Chronicle July 1954]. Places or buildings...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 14
Date(s) of creation: c.1940 - c.1960
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/Box 14
Summary: Groups include: men with tractor; missionary's wife being taken to mission launch by canoe; schoolchildren at Moru; children washing theor hands, Port Moresby. People include: Rev Gordon Price being pushed over Delta mud after visiting village [reproduced in Chronicle July 1954]. Places or buildings including: Moru, Aird Hill. Events include: setting out for Kuku Kuku country with carriers; nativity play. Activities include: breaking up spears and bows; Samoan pastor's wife and women making thatch for mission station building; building bridge with vines and cane; carvin letters L M S on tree; coming out from church after Sunday school; school feast. Also includes: M V Toaripi [boat]. Pictures taken by/received from: Rev Herbert Alfred Brown [1905 - 1988. Served LMS and CWM in Moru district, Papua 1938 - 1971] and Rev H Gordon Price [1920 - ?. Stationed at Aird Hill from 1952]
Extent: 18 silver gelatin prints
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Brown & Price/Council for World Mission
File number: 80
Format: Archive