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1 AU ANUA 334-1 Listening to 'the Iron', The gramophone is known to the natives as 'the Iron' [photographer's own caption] c. 1901 None
2 AU ANUA 334-2 A settler and native labourers c. 1901 None
3 AU ANUA 334-3 Central Division natives c. 1901 None
4 AU ANUA 334-4 Reverend Chalmers' grave c. 1901 None
5 AU ANUA 334-5 Daru, taken from stone jetty, or what is intended to be a jetty, at low tide. c. 1901 None
6 AU ANUA 334-6 Fly River sailing canoes c. 1901 None
7 AU ANUA 334-7 A group of Gulf Division natives with a Catholic missionary in the centre c. 1901 None
8 AU ANUA 334-8 A settler, his 'boys' and Sunday visitors [photographer's own caption] c. 1901 None
9 AU ANUA 334-9 Port Moresby c. 1901 None
10 AU ANUA 334-10 Daru Harbour, low tide. 100 odd natives preparing to embark on the small steamer lying in mid stream to go to work on a plantation near Port Moresby. c. 1901 None
11 AU ANUA 334-11 Village of Sogeri - Not far from Port Moresby and now the scene of much activity in plantation work. c. 1901 None
12 AU ANUA 334-12 Daru - Customs House and quarters (centre), boatshed in the foreground c. 1901 None
13 AU ANUA 334-13 A settler engaged in clearing scrub in preparation for planting rubber c. 1901 None
14 AU ANUA 334-14 Port Moresby people c. 1901 None
15 AU ANUA 334-15 A group of natives just returned from work on the pearling fleet in the Torres Strait c. 1901 None
16 AU ANUA 334-16 Native police c. 1901 None
17 AU ANUA 334-17 These natives are clean, which is the best I can say of them, and belong to the LMS station at Daru [photographer's own caption] c. 1901 None
18 AU ANUA 334-18 Daru c. 1901 None
19 AU ANUA 334-19 Daru c. 1901 None
20 AU ANUA 334-20 The native of New Guinea enjoys nothing better than dancing and singing - he whiles most of his time and most of his master's in this way. [photographer's own caption] c. 1901 None
21 AU ANUA 334-21 Fly River natives recruited for plantation work c. 1901 None
22 AU ANUA 334-22 Turama River natives c. 1901 None
23 AU ANUA 334-23 European man with five Papua New Guineans c. 1901 None
24 AU ANUA 334-24 Turama River natives c. 1901 None
25 AU ANUA 334-25 Mission children of Daru. They look happy enough but I had to dance a hornpipe to get them to smile as they are. [photographer's own caption] c. 1901 None
26 AU ANUA 334-26 Daru Harbour, high tide c. 1901 None
27 AU ANUA 334-27 Natives of Goaribari. Presumed head hunters or cannibals. [photographer's own caption] c. 1901 None
28 AU ANUA 334-28 The green or edible turtle. They are very much alive but are quite helpless out of water c. 1901 None
29 AU ANUA 334-29 Yule Island, the headquarters of the Sacred Heart Mission c. 1901 None
30 AU ANUA 334-30 Natives of Western Divison. Allegedly at the opening of the first church built at Daru c. 1901 None
31 AU ANUA 334-31 Daru c. 1901 None