Pacific

Islands

Monthly

April, 1955

Vol. XXV. No. 9.

ished 1930

* *• GP.O.,Sydney for iro

A Papuan woman ffrom Japen Island.

[Netherlands New

I Guinea, holding a local earthenware water pot which has been glazed with resin. The woman’s dress is interesting and in contrast to that of the native women on the other side of the New Guinea border. On top of a long sarong she wears a jacket copied from that of Indonesian women.

L —Photo by Jaap Eindler, Biak.