The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Warrant Officer E. A. Brown, with local native children patting a collie dog, at a village post. He is in charge of the area in which these villages are located. This photograph was published in the Australian Women's Weekly on 18 December 1943.
Carrying water from a nearby well to their village, these local native men and women carry their home-made pots on their shoulders. This photograph was published in the Australian Women's Weekly on 18
Row of houses in the 'Main street' of a village. The local natives were evacuated from two coastal villages for their own safety and operational reasons. This photograph was published in the Australia
Portrait of a bare-chested Waieke, fine type of local native, wearing shell necklaces and armbands. This photograph was published in the Australian Women's Weekly on 18 December 1943.
Hitolo, village counsellor, is seeking local native boy recruits for a Papuan brass band, explaining the duties and privileges to prospective bandsmen. The boys quickly learn to read music, and can pl
Nursing Sister Evelyn Morgan waves the grass skirt given to her by natives as she leaves their village in the lakatoi (native boat) on which visitors are ferried across the estuary. She is ferried by
Gavera Arua, chairman of village council (left), his son Arua, a native teacher (right) and Hitolo Gege, village counsellor and interpreter for Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU), confe
