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Groups include: Mothercraft and Infant Welfare trainees feeding babies; indigenous women outside house and cooking in kitchen, preparing and storing yams; Mrs Sprott with Clara and Rosanna, two founding members of Mothers Union, Santa Isabel; Miss Woods and Miss Barratt with school girls at Lepi; Miss Fagan with Mothers Union group on Raga, New Hebrides [now Vanuatu]. People include: a Gela bride [Florida Islands]; Miss Scrimgeour and Miss Williams at Gwaigeo, Mala [Malaita]; Mrs Sprott, founder of Mothers Union, Santa Isabel; Judah Bulu, small child using field telephone. Events include: Mothers Union Festival at Buala [Santa Isabel]. Ativities include: man grating coconut; girls performing a clap dance; girls of Torgil school working land to grow food. Places or buildings include: Malaita Mothercraft school chapel; washing and bathing pool at village, Guadalcanal. Also includes: Southern Cross and Selwyn ships; woman's legs showing signs of disease. Taken by/receivied from: Album dedicated on last page from "Infant Melanesia to the Mother Church. Can you hear me mother? Please send us Priests, Nurses, Teachers. Please give us the money to pay for them."
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