Splitting cane for tying purposes
- AU PMB PHOTO 1-39
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Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
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Splitting cane for tying purposes
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
See card previously with Tutupele, Raluana (near Rabaul)
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Rev and Mrs and K.A. Wenzel & Scharnhost [child]
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Pounding poison root for asphyxiating fish
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Plaiting coconut palm leaves for sleeping mats.
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Sister Lida Tonkin (Mrs L. Gill), a nursing sister from Young, NSW, first arrived at the Methodist Mission at Raluana in New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in 1916.
The photographs and post cards include events, daily life and traditional customs practiced in Rabaul in the early 20th century. Funerary and marriage customs are represented. There is a good set of photographs on traditional fishing (PMB Photo 1_31 to PMB Photo 1_46). Other images show canoe building and sailing, basket, broom and string making and traditional houses, mission life and the Malabunga hospital. Dances, such as the Kulau dance, carvings used in dances and the
Tonkin, Lida
Pero To Kinhein (?), Chief of Ialaheau (?)
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland
Part of Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland