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Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.

Papua New Guinea (?): a woman with a massive scarification over her clavicles. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

Causes of transmission of AIDS in Papua New Guinea: five scenes. Colour lithograph, 199-.

Five images involving a couple at Papua New Guinea High School who arrange to meet at a party representing an AIDS prevention advertisement about safe sex and condoms by the Papua New Guinea Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / scanning electron micrograph: Dr. R. W. Taylor ; text; Dr. R. W. Taylor.

Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large pin through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a woman and child. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large metal or wooden sculpture through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

An illustrated AIDS prevention information sheet showing how HIV is and is not spread by the Papua New Guinea Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A man puts his hand around the waist of a woman dancing in a yellow vest and pink skirt in a nightclub setting representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for safe sex and condoms by the Papua New Guinea Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Papua New Guinea: a tree house of the Koiari people, east of Port Moresby. Photograph taken by J.W. Lindt, 1886.

Nutrition and the Papuan child : a study in human welfare / by H. A. P. C. Oomen and S. H. Malcolm.

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea : vignettes of an earlier period / edited by Sir Burton G. Burton-Bradley.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9B.

Congenital nystagmus among the red-skins of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Symbols and sentiments : cross-cultural studies in symbolism [extract relating to Papua New Guinea] / edited by Ioan Lewis.

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Papua New Guinea

Images from the collections

Images referencing Papua New Guinea

Works from the collections

Nutrition and the Papuan child : a study in human welfare / by H. A. P. C. Oomen and S. H. Malcolm.

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea : vignettes of an earlier period / edited by Sir Burton G. Burton-Bradley.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9B.

Congenital nystagmus among the red-skins of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Symbols and sentiments : cross-cultural studies in symbolism [extract relating to Papua New Guinea] / edited by Ioan Lewis.

Papua New Guinea

Images from the collections

Images referencing Papua New Guinea

Works from the collections

Nutrition and the Papuan child : a study in human welfare / by H. A. P. C. Oomen and S. H. Malcolm.

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea : vignettes of an earlier period / edited by Sir Burton G. Burton-Bradley.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9B.

Congenital nystagmus among the red-skins of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Symbols and sentiments : cross-cultural studies in symbolism [extract relating to Papua New Guinea] / edited by Ioan Lewis.

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