PAPUA. WILD AND FORMIDABLE AS HE LOOKS IN NATURE'S GARB AND WITH HIS HUGE KNIFE, THIS BOY "HARRY" ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number 013006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Parer, Damien Peter
Place made Papua
Date made 6 August 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

PAPUA. WILD AND FORMIDABLE AS HE LOOKS IN NATURE'S GARB AND WITH HIS HUGE KNIFE, THIS BOY "HARRY" IS IN FACT A FRIENDLY SOUL AND SPEAKS PRECISE ENGLISH. THE AID OF THIS NATIVE IS INVALUABLE TO AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

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