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  • Sacred anthropomorphic figure, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
  • Causes of transmission of AIDS in Papua New Guinea: five scenes.
  • Photograph of a man and a group of children, Papua New Guinea.
  • Photograph of a man and a group of children, Papua New Guinea.
  • Causes of transmission of AIDS in Papua New Guinea: five scenes. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Five images involving a couple at Papua New Guinea High School who arrange to meet at a party representing an AIDS prevention advertisement about safe sex and condoms by the Papua New Guinea Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a woman and child. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
  • Papua New Guinea (?): a woman with a massive scarification over her clavicles. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
  • Papua New Guinea: a tree house of the Koiari people, east of Port Moresby. Photograph taken by J.W. Lindt, 1886.
  • Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large pin through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
  • Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large metal or wooden sculpture through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
  • An illustrated AIDS prevention information sheet showing how HIV is and is not spread by the Papua New Guinea Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A boy with deep scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). Halftone.
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • A man puts his hand around the waist of a woman dancing in a yellow vest and pink skirt in a nightclub setting representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for safe sex and condoms by the Papua New Guinea Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey.
  • A Papuan woman holding her baby in a child carrier attached around her head. Halftone.
  • A trephined human skull from New Britain. Photograph, 1940.
  • Cranial deformation in Bougainville. Photograph by T.J. Macmahon, ca. 1919.
  • Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / scanning electron micrograph: Dr. R. W. Taylor ; text; Dr. R. W. Taylor.
  • Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / scanning electron micrograph: Dr. R. W. Taylor ; text; Dr. R. W. Taylor.
  • The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; complete in one volume ; with a preface by Havelock Ellis.
  • The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; complete in one volume ; with a preface by Havelock Ellis.
  • A human skull showing signs of Trepanning.