“Papuan Wonderland”
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
this page are reproduced a selec tion of photographs (kindly supplied by Mr. Jack Hides) which show clearly the distinctive types of people found on the hitherto unknown Central Papuan plateau by the Hides-O’Malley expedi tion (described in the August issue).
There is a striking resemblance between these people and those discovered two years ago by Messrs, Leahy and Taylor in the Mount Hagen district, New Guinea.
Photographs show: Top: A group of wigged men of the Waga- Furari district. Centre, left: One of the tall, slim, light-coloured brown-haired people of the Tari Furoro district. Centre, right: Natives of the Tari Furoro district, carrying axes, with keen, sharp blades of hard, green stone. (These are apparently similar to Mt. Hagen axes). Lower; One of the carefully-laid-out plots of spinach, Tari Furoro district.