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Money Photograph Albums, Australian Museum

00 No caption (kawo va)
01 Artifact closeup
01 Artifact list
01 Artifacts, full page
02 Typical grave, Collingwood Bay'
02 Typical graves full page
03 Group of Dancers closeup
03 Group of dancers
04 Old church Wanigera detail
04 Old church, Wanigera
05 New church, Wanigera
06 Old House, Wanigera
07 The Den, full page
07 The Den, Uiaku
08 Girl, Uiaku, Collingwood Bay
09 Girl in full dress after a period of mourning with scars
10 Lake Koiena
11 Large gathering of natives at govt station, Tufi, King's birthday 1902
12 The girls on opposite page. Full face
12 Uiaku Girls showing tattoo marks, side face
14 Uiaku girls tattoos
15 Uiaku girls tattoos
16 Tattooed girls
17 Tattooed girls
18 School Girls, Uiaku
19 Typical house, Uiaku
20 Making lime
20 Village scene, Uiaku
21 detail
21 Men returning from fishing, women unloading nets
22 Preparing and distributing food for a feast 2
22 Preparing and distributing food for a feast
23 Lime kiln burning
23 Putting shells in lime kiln
23 slaking the lime
24 Boys speaking fish. Note the multipronged spears
24 Fishing
24 Men lacing the sections of a big fishing net
25 Beremu's widows in half mourning
25 Investigation (picking lice from hair during mourning)
25 Widows and grooming
26 detail
26 Grass hunting, showing net
27 detail
27 Grass hunt 'meet'
28 detail 1
28 detail 2
28 Onjob widows in warrior garb
29 Happy family
29 Onjob funeral ceremonial dance
29 page
30 detail
30 Missionary's home, Wanigera
31 detail
31 Missionary's home, note on attic and teacher
32 Boy's dormintory. Late James Nogar on his verandah
33 Old Wanigera village
34 detail
34 Men making roof thatch, women preparing clay for pots
35 The Tomo and her crew
36 A huntsman
37 Dressed for a hunt
37 Group dressed for a hunt. In old days they decorated like this for war
38 detail
38 Gembud, one time my cookboy
39 detail
39 Two Wanigera school girls, the first baptized
40 Men dressed for hunting
41 Uiaku beach (possibly Vayova)
42 girls playing jaki Uiaku
42
43 Drying the nets, Uiaku
44 Mission Buildings, Uiaku. Left to right, SSI house, my house, school, church
45 Ausi, a Maisin maid
46 detail 1
46 detail 2
46 detail 3
46 detail 4
46 Glimpses of Yuayu
47 A turtle ride. This turtle could not move with this boy
47 Bringing home the turtle
48 A Maisin girl. In full regalia after completion of puberty rites
49 Doremai of Uiaku. Dressed for his debut as a hunter
50 A Doriri Man from the mountains behind Wanigera
51 Wanigera man
52 Hair dressing. A heated potshard is used for this
52 Husking a coconut
53 full page
53 Wanigera girl covered during puberty ceremony
53 You shave me I'll shave you
54 Making sago
54 No caption (Bartle Bay)
55 An Okein warrior
56 A group of dancers
56 A Widower of Uiaku. He has to sit apart for about a year
57 A dance
57 Dance in full swing
58 Throwing a pot
58 village scene
58 Wanigera women are the best potters in Papua
59 Making a hand net
59 Making a section of a seine net
60 Mission house as seen upon entering the compound
60 The mission house showing kitchen block and inclined way
61 The dining room
62 The butler and his assistant, Wanigera
63 Half Caste children, Dogura, with Miss Peist and Nowland (left to right)
64 Rainu
65 Wanigera beach
66 Filling water bottles, Wedau, Bartle Bay
67 Collingwood Bay from Mukawa, Cape Vogel
69 Marriage custom. Girls wailing because some are to marry
70 A load of native pottery
70 Milne Bay canoe off Samarai
71 Mrs Tomlinson. The Tomlinsons adopted and reared Fanny
71 Spraying the hair with coconut oil and wild honey
A belle
A cooling draught (coconut)
A Native token of gratitude (prestation of food)
A Papuan brook
A warrior bold
Accounting for the coconut husk
Alert (spear fishing)
Bernard's debut
Boys playing in the surf
Chief
Fishing nets drying, Uiaku
Girls game of jaki
Making a headrest and a spear
Making a pig net
Man the protector, woman the porter
Muzzled dog
Nora, a water carrier
Percy John Money in warrior garb, Sydney c1905
Pride of Yuayu (girl's portrait)
Tattooed girls 1
Tattooed girls 2
Tattooed girls 3
Tattooed girls 4
Three men and their fishing net
Wallaby dance (boys game)
War dance
Wedding breakfast (bride wealth prestation)
Widower in half mourning (Mr Tomlinson)
Wogas viriviri, oranges and lemons (game)

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