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Gold-sluicing on Sharkeye Park’s claim, Koranga Creek,Morobe Goldfield, late 1920s

Canoe, Louisiade Archipelago, after MacGillivray 1852

Ceremonial axe, Woodlark Island, after Seligman 1910

Tree House, Koiari, after Stone 1880

Koiari ridge-top village and tree-houses, 1885

Hornbill headdress, Kumusi River, Australian Museum 1907

Head-dress with bird-of-paradise plumes from Kumusi River presented to the Australian Museum, 1907

Sketch of Neneba village and man from Neneba made by a member of William MacGregor’s patrol, 1896

Paddle handle, Massim, after Haddon 1894

The Abau detachment of the Armed Native Constabulary

Shield, Gulf of Papua, after Haddon 1894

A ‘team’ of labourers from Orokolo on the Lakekamu Goldfield, 1914

Two labourers bringing in a cassowary to feed the team, 1914

Miners at Sunset Camp, Lakekamu Goldfield, 1914

Labourers from Milne Bay with canoe that they have made to allow miners to prospect the tributaries of the upper Fly River, 1914. Frank Pryke is on the left.

Prospector trading with people on the upper Fly,Pryke expedition, 1914

Kukukuku warrior, Lakekamu Goldfield, 1914

Group of Kukukuku (‘More of the nice boys’),Lakekamu Goldfield, 1914

Patrol Officer Fred Chisholm trying to compile a Kukukuku vocabulary, 1914

Drum, Morobe District, National Museum of Victoria 1932

Miners’ camp near the junction of Edie and Merri Creeks,‘one of the picked spots’. Late 1920s

Frank Pryke’s hut on Edie Creek

Salamaua’s jovial billiard saloon keeper, Bill Cameron with a few of his patrons. June 1929

Labourers sluicing with a monitor on Koranga Creek

Labourers carrying ore to the tram-line that serves the crusher,1938, Kupei. Bougainville, now the site of a giant copper mine

Australian newspaper reports of the Morobe gold strikes