The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dutch, New Guinea. Kaya Kaya natives making an airstrip at a captured base.
Dutch New Guinea. The original natives of the swamps country are called Kaya-Kaya natives. They have many strange customs and are still very primitive. They rely on bows and arrows and spears for obta
Dutch New Guinea. Troops on patrol manoeuvres move from the beach into canoes (praoes) held by Kaya-Kaya natives whom they have employed to transport them across the rivers.
NEW GUINEA. A KAYA-KAYA NATIVE MAN SHOWS AN AUSSIE HOW TO USE A BOW AND ARROW IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA WHILE NEI SOLDIER AND ANOTHER KAYA-KAYA WATCH THE RESULTS.
Dutch New Guinea. Flight Lieutenant Ross Stephens of Melbourne, Vic, RAAF doctor in the area, bandages the leg of a young Kaya Kaya child. Other local men holding their shovels are lined up waiting to
Dutch New Guinea. When the Aussies out on patrol through the swamp come to a river they employ the local Kaya-Kaya natives to ferry them across in their native 'praoes' (canoes). They also transport j
New Guinea. Kaya-Kaya natives educated by a Catholic Mission, entertain some Aussies with their school band.
