Papua New Guinea, New Hebrides photographs

Album of photographs, two to a page, measuring approximately 150 x 100 mm, and all captioned beneath the print. The majority of the photographs depict indigenous people, the captions identify them by tribe or place in English or German, pencilled on loose labels. Images of tribal people and habitat, Head houses, idols and artefacts, village scenes, women, children, family groups etc. in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides (Malekula) and including some North Australian aborigines.

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Purchased from Pablo Butcher in June 1998 for £6000.

Includes index.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Good condition.

This collection level description was entered by WS using information from Pablo Butcher's catalogue (No. 10).

Unknown