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Professor Anthony Forge and Mrs Phyl Turner inspecting an artefact from the Sepik river of New Guinea

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Professor Forge and Mrs Phyl Turner examine an artefact from the Sepik river area of New Guinea. Professor Forge encouraged Mrs Turner, a 76 year old who had less than three years of primary schooling and no secondary schooling at all, to complete a Litt. B with majors in anthropology and Classics. Mrs Turner, having had careers as a nurse, housewife and mother, graduated in 1988.

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AU ANUA 226 - Photographs of Buildings and Events at the Australian National University

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1980s

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