Guide to the Chinnery Collection, New Guinea, 1912-1937

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Content Summary:: Photographs show New Guinea weapons, dress and decoration, religious practices, artefacts, canoes and rafts, dances and ceremonies, houses, and copper mining.
Biographical / Historical:: E.W.P. Chinnery was Government Anthropologist in New Guinea 1924-1932 and Director of District Services and Native Affairs 1932-1939; he then headed the Dept. of Native Affairs in Northern Territory for six years.

Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia