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.

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.

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My important, ridiculous nose

Papua New Guinea (?): a child seen from behind, with heavy metal earrings. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large pin through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

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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 woman and child. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

Papua New Guinea (?): a child seen from behind, with heavy metal earrings. 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 man with a large pin through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

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My important, ridiculous nose

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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 woman and child. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

Papua New Guinea (?): a child seen from behind, with heavy metal earrings. 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 man with a large pin through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).