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934396
  • Title
    File 02: Walkabout magazine : Papua New Guinea photographs [general views and New Guinea Islanders]
  • Call number
    PXA 1292/Box 1/nos. 14-114
  • Level of description
    file
  • Date

    1954-1965
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    934396
  • Physical Description
    101 photographs - black and white - 15.4 x 20.6 cm-20.2 x 25.5 cm
  • Scope and Content
    Numbers in brackets = original Walkabout negative numbers

    14. Buang Mountains – New Guinea (on reverse: The Snake River, in the Buang Mountains, between the Markham and the Bulolo Valleys, N.E. New Guinea) / Australian News and Information Bureau photograph (L9691)

    15. Gold and Gold Mining – New Guinea (on reverse: sluicing for gold at the Koranga open cut, near Wau) /Australian News and Information Bureau by W. Brindle (L12909)

    16. Markham River, New Guinea / Australian News and Information Bureau (L41695)

    17. New Guinea, 1959 (on reverse: Gold & Gold Mining …) / Basil Hall (4612 filed at FM1/2607)

    18. New Guinea Islanders, 1949 (on reverse: Mount Hagen native) / A. Maabs (G3752 filed at FM1/2612)
    19. New Guinea Islanders, 1949 (on reverse: Mount Hagen native with his pig) /A. Maabs (G3755 filed at FM1/2621)
    20. New Guinea Islanders 1958 (on reverse: Bena Bena natives of the highlands …) / Basil Hall (4613 filed at FM1/2606)
    21. New Guinea Islanders ca. 1963 (Biak tribesmen, Hollandia, Western Australia) / W.A. Newspapers (1872)
    22. New Guinea Islanders, September 1965 (on reverse: A tribesman from Minj … attending the Mt. Hagen Show, uses a camera for the first time) (29)
    23. New Guinea Islanders, 1965 (on reverse: Tourists at the 1965 Mt. Hagen Show … photograph girls from the Minj tribe) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (20)
    24. New Guinea Islanders, n.d. (on reverse: A Chimbu girl) / I. C. Seymour
    25. New Guinea Islanders, n.d. (on reverse:Two men of Gua Village in the Finisterres) (3861 filed at FM1 2613)

    26. New Guinea Islanders – Art, 1963 (basket making) / ANTA (1604)
    27. New Guinea Islanders – Art, 1963 (basket making) / ANTA (1604)
    28. New Guinea Islanders – Art, 1963 (on reverse: Decorated wooden carvings in a “haus tambaran”at Maprik in the Sepik district. No woman is allowed to enter these traditional meeting places of men, for many of their secret ceremonies are conducted in them. The sacred houses are found only in the Sepik district of New Guinea) / Australian News and Information Bureau Photograph by C. Bottomley (1622)
    29. New Guinea Islanders – Art, 1965 (on reverse: An American couple, having a souvenir they bought from the 1965 Mt. Hagen Show in New Guinea, sprayed by a Department of Agriculture Official) / ANTA photo by David Beal (24)
    30. New Guinea Islanders – Art (on reverse: Warupa with shuttle in hand)
    31. New Guinea Islanders – Art (on reverse: Warupa has just sent the shuttle across the loom. He is weaving a blanket from wool which was machine spun and dyed in Australia
    32. New Guinea Islanders – Art (on reverse: Lighting the copper by the stream. Both the blankets being held up are woven from greasy wool and must be washed in detergent to remove all the lanolin)
    33. New Guinea Islanders – Art (on reverse: Rinsing the newly washed blankets in the running water of the stream)
    34. New Guinea Islanders - Art (on reverse: The finished product proudly shown by the men who wove them. These five weavers are standing at the door of the Karimui haus blanket)

    35. New Guinea Islanders – Civilization and Treatment, 1963 (on reverse: Census taking of people of the Maibagil Sub-Clan at the village of Kelua in the Western Highlands of New Guinea) / Australian News and Information Bureau (461)
    36. New Guinea Islanders – Civilization and Treatment, 1965 (on reverse: New Guinea elections …)
    37. New Guinea Islanders – Civilization and Treatment [with cattle] / Australian News and Information Bureau
    38. New Guinea Islanders – Civilization and Treatment (sign on building: Mt. Hagen Lutheran Church Compound)

    39-44 New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament, 1960; 1964-1965 (on reverse: Mount Hagen Show and Goroka Show / ANTA by David Beal (37) ; ANTA (22, 26) ; ANIB (1583, 1608) ; (6800). [5 photographs in booklet]
    45. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1963 / ANIB (1602)
    46. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1963 [group of men with feathered head gear] / ANIB (1609)
    47. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1963 [large group of men] / ANIB (1613)
    48. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1963 [one man] / ANTA (1617)
    49. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1965 ( on reverse: Tribespeople …at the Mt. Hagen Show, New Guinea. Waiting to perform a ceremonial dance) / ANTA by David Beal (37))
    50. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1965 (on reverse: Tribesmen in ceremonial dress perform at the Mount Hagen Show, New Guinea) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (38)
    51. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament , 1965 (Tribesman with ticket (in pidgin) which says he has paid his entry fee of 2/- to the 1965 Mt Hagen Show) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (33)
    52. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament, 1965
    53. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament / Australian Tourist Commission (33)
    54. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament / Australian Tourist Commission (38)
    55. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: New Guinea natives)
    56. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: Visitors to New Guinea’s Mt. Hagen Show love to be photographed with natives … / ANTA photograph by David Beal (31)
    57. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: A New Guinea woman and her child at the 1965 Mt. Hagen Show) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (18)
    58. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: Chimbu man with necklace and cassowary feather headdress. The whiskers are both a sign of age and wisdom) / Photographer A. Maahs (G3732 filed at FM1/2623)
    59. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: Goroka Show, New Guinea, 1964. The most fearsome looking group in the whole Sing Sing were these Mud Men from Goroka …) / ANTA photograph (4B)
    60. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: Three chimbu natives ready for action. They carry the war shields ceremonial spear (three pronged) and stone axe) / ANTA
    61. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament (on reverse: Two native girls from Chimbu in the Central Highlands. Prior to marriage young girls wear their gold-lipped or Kina shell, mother of pearl, around their necks …) / Photographer A. Maahs (G3729)
    62. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament, (on reverse: Mekeo Dancers) (A2167)
    63. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornament, n.d. [three men, two with painted faces and masks] / ANTA (1612)
    64. New Guinea Islanders – Clothing and Ornaments, n.d. (on reverse: A Papuan of the Orokaiva people in the Kokoda district …) / ANTA (1614)

    65. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1949 ( on reverse: A native village near Hagen) / ANTA (3753)
    66. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1949 (on reverse: A native village near Hagen) / A. Maahs (G3753 filed at FM1 /2611)
    67. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1954 (on reverse: The village street with two native women squatting with their pigs) / A. Maahs (3731 filed at FM1/2610)
    68. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1958 (on reverse: Native house in Isan in thr Finisterres ...) (3860)
    69. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1963 / ANIB (L42177)
    70. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1963 (on reverse: A “long house” at Dogona village, one of the very few traditional community dwelling places still in use in the Balimo area of Western Papua ...) / ANIB photograph by J. Tanner (L 27823)
    71. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1965 (on reverse: A “haus tambaran”, secret meeting place for men only, which was erected at the 1965 Mt Hagen Show …) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (32/12A)
    72. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1965 (on reverse: A “haus tambaran”, secret meeting place for men only, which has erected at the 1965 Mt. Hagen Show…) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (32/4A)
    73. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, 1965 (on reverse: Half mile long ‘long huts’ built for native visitors to Mt. Hagen …during the Mt. Hagen Show) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (28/3A)
    74. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings (on reverse: Kama village near Goroka in the Central Highlands of New Guinea) / Australian News and Information Bureau (L42160)
    75. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, n.d. (on reverse: A native house near Kerowagi …) (3864 filed at FM1/2622) [3 in booklet]
    76. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, n.d. (on reverse: Near Kainatu in the Central Highlands) / A. Maahs (G3727 filed at FM1/2618) [3 in booklet]
    77. New Guinea Islanders – Dwellings, n.d. (on reverse: A rainy day in Kewieng village in the Finisterres …) (3862 filed at FM1/2609) [3 in booklet]

    78. New Guinea Islanders – Games and Pastimes, 1964 (on reverse: Goroka Show …) / ANTA photograph by Extension Services (A2113)
    79. New Guinea Islanders – Games & Pastimes, 1965 (on reverse: The native wood sawing event at the Mt Hagen Show) / ANTA photograph by David Beal

    80. New Guinea Islanders – Hunting and Fishing, 1958 (on reverse: Natives of Chimbu & their pig. Highlands of New Guinea / Basil Hall (2615)
    81. New Guinea Islanders – Hunting and Fishing, 1959 (on reverse: On the beach at Koki, Port Moresby ... / Basil Hall (FM1/2616)
    82. New Guinea Islanders – Hunting and Fishing, 1963 (on reverse: Kukukuku warrior shooting an arrow from his bow ... / ANIB photograph by W. Brindle (1619)

    83. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1934-74 (L9666)
    84. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1949 (on reverse: Gardening in the Central Highlands is done by primitive methods. This man is breaking up the sod with a pointed wooden pole ... / A. Maahs (G3757 filed at FM1/2619) [3 in booklet]
    85. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, (on reverse: Gardening in the Central Highlands is done by primitive methods. This man is breaking up the sod with a pointed wooden pole. He drives the pole into the ground and then pries the sod up. His son watches) / A Maahs (G3758 filed at FM1/2620) [3 in booklet]
    86. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1949 (on reverse: New Guinea natives, with their remarkable stone axes, photographed in the Mount Hagan area) /A. Maahs (G3754 filed at FM1/3754 filed at FMI 2614) [3 in booklet]
    87. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1963 / ANTA (1607)
    88. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1963 – (on reverse: display of souvenir items) / B. McArdle
    89. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1965 (on reverse: P...? River Native)
    90. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons, 1965 (on reverse: Women from Madang, New Guinea, give a pottery making exhibition at the 1965 Mt. Hagen Show) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (31/4A)
    91. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons n.d. (on reverse: Canoe at the village of Inus on Bougainville Island in the northern part of the Solomon Islands ...) / ANIB photograph by V. Gadsby (L26587)
    92. New Guinea Islanders – Implements and Weapons n.d. / ANTA (1621)

    93. New Guinea Islanders – Mortuary Customs, 1964 (on reverse: Goroka Show, New Guinea 1964. The beads of strung seeds are symbolic of mourning for loved ones lost in battle ...) / ANTA (5A)

    94. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Tribespeople performing ceremonial dances in the main arena at the Mt. Hagan Show, New Guinea) / ANTA by David Beal (36/30A) [6 in booklet]
    95. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Tribesmen in ceremonial dress perform at the Mt. Hagan Show, New Guinea) / ANTA by David Beal (38) [6 in booklet]
    96. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: People from Minj, New Guinea, at the Mount Hagen Show, are photographed as they perform their Spear Dance / ANTA by David Beal (35) [6 in booklet]
    97. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Goroka Show, New Guinea 1964 ...) / ANTA (30) [6 in booklet]
    98. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Goroka Show, New Guinea 1964 ...) / ANTA (19) [6 in booklet]
    99. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Orokaiva dancers in the Kokoda district of Papua ... / ANTA by J. Tanner (1615) [6 in booklet]
    100. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: A colourful flare parade held by 5,000 people at the 1965 Mt. Hagan Show / ANTA by David Beal (18/8)
    101. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Crowds outside an exhibit at the Mt. Hagen Show, New Guinea …) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (35/24A)
    102. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: People from Minj, New Guinea, at the Mt. Hagen Show, are photographed as they perform their Spear Dance / ANTA by David Beal (35/22A)
    103. New Guinea Islanders – Rites and Ceremonies, 1965 (on reverse: Tribespeople from Minj and Banz, rehearse for a sing song to be held at the 1965 Mt. Hagen Show) /ANTA photograph by David Beal (30/14A)

    104. New Guinea Islanders – Shops, Offices and Factories, 1965 (on reverse: General view of Lae , New Guinea) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (25/23)

    105. New Ireland (on reverse: Coastal village in New Ireland New Guinea / Basil Hall (4611)

    106. Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. (on reverse: Ex-soldier Natives Share in Settlement Scheme … Jamono Joel discusses the finer points of axemanship with the District Commissioner, Mr. K.C. Atkinson … / ANIB photograph by W. Brindle (L38922)
    107. Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. (on reverse: Ex-soldier Natives Share in Settlement Scheme … To peace … Native soldier settler Norman Tiriwa ...) / Australian News & Information Bureau photograph by W. Brindle (L38919)

    108. Port Moresby, N.G., ca. 1960? (on reverse: Fishing village near Port Moresby) / Australian News & Information Bureau (L26875)
    109. Port Moresby (on reverse: Port Moresby, capital of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea) / Australian News & Information Bureau photograph by W. Pedersen (L26882)

    110. Port Moresby, N.G. – Post and Telegraph Technical Training College (on reverse: First year Technician trainees at the Post and Telegraph Technical Training College, Port Moresby, attend a lecture on switchboard jacks by Mr. J. Thornton …) / Australian News & Information Bureau photograph by W. Brindle (L38528)

    111. Port Moresby, N.G. – Shops, Offices, etc. – Koki Markets, 1965 (on reverse: The Koki Market at Port Moresby, New Guinea, holds great interest for the visitors who come to see the natives sell their goods) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (19/21)
    112. Port Moresby, N.G. – Shops, Offices, etc. – Koki Markets, 1965 (on reverse: The Koki Market at Port Moresby, New Guinea, holds great interest for the visitors who come to see the natives sell their goods) / ANTA photograph by David Beal (19/27)

    113. Rabaul, New Britain (on reverse: Rabaul Harbour, New Britain, Territory of Papua-New Guinea / Australian News & Information Bureau photograph by W. Pedersen (L35957)
    114. Rabaul, New Britain (on reverse: A small cargo ship unloads copra at Rabaul in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea. Rabaul is the administrative centre of the island of New Britain, built on the western shores of Simpson Harbour. It handles the trade of numerous plantations on New Britain and adjacent islands, and is beside an important aviation centre) / Australian News and Information Bureau photograph by M. Brown (LE41671)
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  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright restrictions may apply:
    Copyright holder:: Tourism Australia
    Rights and Restrictions Information:: On behalf of Tourism Australia, the State Library of New South Wales is authorised to approve reproduction and use of all images in this collection, for publication and broadcast (all media), without further consultation.
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Tourism Australia
  • Description source

    inscribed on mounts or verso of photograph
  • General note

    Transferred from Self Indexing Files (SPF), July 2011
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