Photographs show New Guinea weapons, dress and decoration, religious practices, artefacts, canoes and rafts, dances and ceremonies, houses, and copper mining.
Biography/History:
E.W.P. Chinnery was Government Anthropologist in New Guinea 1924-1932 and Director of District Services and Native Affairs 1932-1939; he then headed the Dept. of Native Affairs in Northern Territory for six years.
Notes:
The duplicate negatives and prints were created by the Museum of Victoria from negatives by E.W.P. Chinnery. The original negatives are now held by the National Library of Australia in the Pictures section.
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Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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Material type:
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Published status:
Unpublished
Creation date:
1937
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