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A child walks towards the church at Kinami, south Londolovit, with the massive cloud-shrouded edifice of Mount Katnaulen in the background. Kinami sits in the centre of one of the five old calderas that make up the island of Niolam.

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

An ore truck drives past a plastic covered second-grade ore stockpile. The plastic was part of a trail to mitigate Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) otherwise referred to as Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), whereby sulphuric acid is generated by the oxidation of the pyri

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

A small boy holds a rainbow Lorikeet (also very common in Austalia) that has been downed with a slingshot (in background) on Masahet Island. Rubber from the tyre tubes that became abundantly available following the commencement of mining has been commonl

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

John Lakenbos of LMC's Environment Department surfacing in late 1997 with a sediment sampling tube, and enjoying a close encournter with Rainbow Runners (Elegatis bipinulatis) off the South-East Coast of Niolam Island. Meausurements of sediment deposition

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

The flower of the ko (TOK Pisin: Pau) (Barrington edulis) tree. The nuts of this tree are edible, and the leaves are frequently used as plates, particularly at feast.

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Clansmen making an entrance to a large feast at Malie Island in 2002. The large baskets they carry are distinctive of the Lihirian culture. They usually carry betelnut (TP:buai), pepper (TP: daka), lime (TP: kambang), tobacco (TP: brus), and are decorat

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Boys at Samo delivering talks about the items of body decoration they have chosen. The small bag of tol (red ochre) held by the boy is used for decorating the body and the face. The orchid plant is one of the few body decorations that is not grown close

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Three young girls wearing traditional adornment made from plants and natural pigments. The girl on the left holds a coral banch, from which lime is processed, then mixed with water and used as face and body paint.

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

A schoolboy is wearing a neck decoration made from leaves sewn with string (for an adult neck!) and holding the sample of the biar plant that he collected for class.

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Young girl wearing items of Lihirian adornment. Red pigment from the seeds of the Bixa tree is used as a face and body paint, ornamental leaves tied as a necklace and red hibiscus flowers worn in hair and sometime in armbands. The colour red is associat

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Flower girls - these young women are performing a Christian hymn and dance during a school fundraiser at Samo Village, 1998.

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Men performing maintenance on the wheel of one of the ore-carrying vehicles at the mine site

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

The mining project has bought with it improved health services. Major impacts of new health services include the improvement in material health, a decline in infant mortality and infant malnutrition and a growth in population. The picture of a young mot

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Girl in pink shirt

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Sunrise from the top of cliff behind the housing estate at Londolovit. The coconuts are part of the old plantation that forms one of the mining leases. Copra, once a major export, is no longer a viable commodity in most parts of the Pacific.

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Part of Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea

AU ANUA 269 · Series · 1997 - 2002

Macintyre, Martha

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