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Indigenous Life in Papua New Guinea Photo Archive of 33 original silver gelatin photographs 1944-1945

1944rif. 221181944. Papua New Guinea Photo Archive of 33 original silver gelatin photographs taken in Papua New Guinea circa 1944-1945 as dated in pencil on several versos. The images document traditional village life among Indigenous New Guineans many shown in ceremonial attire performing subsistence labor or posed outside grass-thatched huts. Several photos include White men in Western dress likely visiting for military anthropological or missionary purposes during the World War II Pacific campaign a period that brought foreign occupation and anthropological interest to many previously uncolonized or semi-isolated Papuan regions. Each measure approximately 3.5" x 2.5". Many images showcase Indigenous men and women wearing elaborate ritual regalia: skirts of plant fibers necklaces of shell and bone nose and ear ornaments and headpieces adorned with feathers. In some photos male villagers are shown carrying large slit-gong drums strapped over their shoulders with rope-likely part of a ceremonial performance as these drums were used in both musical and communicative traditions across the Sepik and Highlands regions One series captures local men holding American Esquire magazines and smoking cigarettes suggesting both the imposition of and interaction with the visiting Westerners. The historical context of these photographs is rooted in the Allied occupation of Papua New Guinea during World War II particularly by U.S. and Australian forces. While combat operations were widespread in New Guinea from 1942 to 1945 the final years of the war saw increased documentation by visiting soldiers anthropologists and missionaries many of whom sought to capture what they perceived as "vanishing" cultures. Indigenous Papuans during this era lived primarily in small clan-based villages practicing subsistence horticulture ritual exchange and complex oral traditions. The intrusion of Westerners especially during the war had deep and lasting impacts on social structures religious practices and material culture and this archive reflects the tension between visibility objectification and resilience. Minor curling and edgewear overall very good condition. A rich and rare visual record of traditional Indigenous life in Papua New Guinea on the cusp of dramatic wartime and postwar transformation with significant documentary value for visual anthropology Pacific studies and the wartime colonial encounter. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · Stati Uniti385,00 USD≈ 344,61 €

Papua New Guinea Indigenous LifeABAA

Indigenous Life in Papua New Guinea Photo Archive of 33 original silver gelatin photographs 1944-1945

Max Rambod Inc. · Stati Uniti385,00 USD≈ 344,61 €

Sutherland, H.M.; Rayne, H.; Hedstrom, Sir J.M.; Elliot, H.W.; Johnson, M.; Rane, Hugh; Mitchell-Hedges, F.A.; Burman, B.L.; Farmer, H.F.; Molesworth, D.; Fitzpatrick, J.; Grimshaw, B.; Murphy, C.C.R.; Layng, C.; Mix, TomMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, February (Feb.) 1925, Vol. LIV No. 322 - The Case for the Sea-Serpent / The Sea Villages of Humboldt's Bay

1925Pages 266-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Poll Chunk's Son - a story from the hills of Kentucky; The Ivory Raiders - part 1 of a tale fromm the Turkanaland district of Central Africa on the western shores of Lake Rudolf where Major H. Rayne deals with Swahili elephant poachers and Turkana warriors; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - a mysterious Fijian monster; In the Wilds with a Camera - Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson take photos in the interior of British East Africa; The Land Sharks - criminal buying and selling of land in Canada; In Quest of the Unknown - part 3 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' adventures amoung the Chucunaque Indians; James Watson - Human Tiger - a remarkable American crime; An Eviction in Patagonia - a rich man attempts to drive away the cattle of a squatter; My Jungle Jaunts - part 1 of an Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos; The Blue Powder - bewitching a District Commissioner in Nigeria; The Sea-Villages of Humboldt's Bay - photo-illustrated article on this Dutch New Guinea area; The Mad Jackal - how a homesick Pathan soldier in Mesopotamia got himself sent back to India; Imprisoned in a hollow tree - Harry Comstock spent horrible days and nights inside a tree in Bexar County, Texas; The Tiger I didn't Get - Movie star Tom Mix recounts an adventure that befell him while tiger-shooting in Bengal; Nice one-page General Electric ad with illustration of new street lighting in Nagoya, Japan; One-page photo-illustrated ad for Hobart Bradstreet of Chicago. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book

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Brand, J.B.; Bourne, George;Franck, H.A.; Yerburgh, The Rev. W.H.B.; White, Capt. T.W.; Thomason, Hugh; Pocock, R.; Chinnery, E.W.P.; Mander, Lionel; McMahon, (MeMahon?) T.J.; Et alMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV - No. 261, January (Jan.) 1920 - Two Balloonatics

1920Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada295,00 €

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