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Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/02 / Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

  1. three women each holding a skull-. Annotated "234. Same as No. 236 a little difference in posture. New guinea Rev. Thiele. Widows of the Azera tribe carrying the skulls of their deceased husbands hanging from straps showing on the photo. They carried the skulls wherever they went. The Azera tribe = 15-17000 people, live on the upper Markham River about 75 miles from the coast in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. This was taken in Dec 1921, today (1929) it would be difficult to find a similar group. Rev. F Otto Thiele Lutheran Mission New Guinea Dornoch Terrace Brisbane."

  2. group photograph seated men smoking. Annotated "Group of Azera tribesmen chewing betel and smoking tobacco, photo taken Dec 1927. The long bamboo sticks are cigar holders"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/66/21a A-B
Date Range:  1923  -  1930
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02