A village scene in the Trobriand Islands

dc.contributor.author	Photographer: Unknown
dc.coverage.spatial	Papua New Guinea
dc.coverage.spatial	Trobriand Islands
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-01T22:35:14Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-01T23:33:41Z
dc.description.abstract	A village scene in the Trobriand Islands, which are part of Papua. The decorated building is a food storehouse. The native people of Papua and New Guinea total about1,880,000. There are many types of people, differing in appearance, in temperament, and in customs. They live in villages or hamlets scattered through a country of bush-clad mountains, turbulent rivers, fertile plateau, vast sago swamps and tropical lowlands. Before European influence, scattered tribes often fought with each other; over 500 different languages were spoken. Many of their native customs were repugnant to our ideas of humanity. Magic was practiced widely, and there were some primitive forms of religion.
dc.format.medium	photograph
dc.format.medium	b&w
dc.format.mimetype	image/tiff
dc.identifier	PNG6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/272381
dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.provenance	Discovered within the Cartographic archival drawers
dc.relation.ispartofseries	PNG Historic Photographs
dc.title	A village scene in the Trobriand Islands
dc.type	Image
local.contributor.authoremail	sis.cartogis@anu.edu.au
local.description.notes	A series of 30 photographs discovered within the Cartographic archival drawers - dated July 1959. Source unknown
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy	u5031974

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