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New Guinea

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Melanesia
Malay Archipelago

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Images from the collections

Images about New Guinea

4 images from works
  • New Guinea / Royal Interocean Lines.
  • New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey.
  • New Guinea / Royal Interocean Lines.
  • New Guinea / Royal Interocean Lines.

Works from the collections

42 works

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    Report to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the administration of the Territory of New Guinea / Commonwealth of Australia.

    | Date: [1961]
    • Pictures

    A native of New Guinea. Photograph attributed to M.J. Leahy.

    Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979. | Reference: 541154i
    • Books

    Sex and temperament in three primitive societies / by Margaret Mead.

    Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978. | Date: 1935
    • Books

    Art of New Guinea: Sepik, Maprik, and highlands : an exhibition arr. by the Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA, and the Ethnic Arts Council.

    University of California, Los Angeles. Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology. | Date: 1967
    • Pictures

    A native of New Guinea. Photograph attributed to M.J. Leahy.

    Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979. | Reference: 541146i
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