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Percy John Money Photographs, 1901-10

These photographs reside in the Mitchell Collection of the New South Wales Library. They can be reproduced freely. Most are captioned. Click on the images for a larger picture.

Women unloading fish from canoes
Woman filling coconut water container (Wedau)
Woman carrying baby
Widower in full mourning on platform, Uiaku
Widow in mourning, under tapa sheet
Widow in full mourning, crawling under tapa cloak
Wanigela curios
Village, typical
Village, coastal
Village with dancing plaza
Village scene, girl warming self from fever
Village hamlet with dancing grounds
Typical house
Typical grave
Typical boy, Yuayu
Type of girl
Two widows in full mourning, relics of the same man
The Wanigera dance
Tattooed girls-2
Tattooed girls
Tattooed girls, Wanigela 3
Tattooed girls, Wanigela 2
Tattooed girls, Wanigela 1
Tattooed girls, Uiaku
Tabu marker (sririri)
Spraying coconut on man's hair
Samarai canoe 2
Samarai canoe 1
Sailing canoe, Samarai
Returning from the gardens
Radava village
Presentation of a pig
Preparing a feast in connection with a funeral
Pottery, woman making a pot
Pottery making, Wanigela
Portrait of decorated girl
Pig tusk headdress portrait
Onjob women in mourning, dressing in warrior garb, Nonof village
Okein native, Cape Nelson
Net, preparing pandanus fibre for
Native looking for birds
'Mr Tomlinson' in half mourning
Mother with child
Mother carrying baby in stringbag
Method of keeping victim overnight before cutting for cannibal feast
Method of drinking coconut
Method of disposing bodies of those slain away from village
Method of carrying water (Mukawa, Cape Vogel)
Method of carrying children
Men sewing thatch, women making pots
Men making sago mallet and headrest
Marriage customs, present to the groom's family before marriage
Marriage customs, delivering the bride
Man slaking lime, woman beating tapa
Man dressed for hunting or fighting with chiefly ensignia
Making a spear
Lime kiln, Uiaku
Inspecting friend's scalp, Uiaku
Hornbill headdress portrait
Grass hunting meet
Girls showing tatto marks
Girls just after puberty ceremony
Girls game
Girl
Girl with love philtre herbs
Girl veiled during tattooing
Girl just after puberty ceremony
Fishing nets drying
Fishing net weaving
Fetish, Wamira
Famous Headdresses
Drinking a coconut
Dog, muzzled
Distributing cooked food at a feast, Uiaku
Delivering a bride
Dancing party
Customary dance by neighbours after people are killed by enemies
Chief
Chief portrait
Carrying home plantains, Mukawa
Canoes fishing
Canoe, typical
Canoe making, Uiaku
Canoe making, turning prow
Canoe making, hollowing log
Canoe at anchor, Milne Bay
Bringing food for a feast (Mukawa, Cape Vogel)
Bride
Boys playing in sea
Boys game, wild pig bait set and pig coming
Boys game, wallaby dance
Boys game, speaking vegetable disc
Boys game, seizing the pig
Boys game, mogas viriviri
Boys game, cucus (with explanation)
Boy dressed for first dance
Baby hanging in stringbag
Albino boy, Taupota

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