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DAY 158 | PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES |
The Last First Contact
WORLDS COLLIDE
“The white man came from there. We’d never seen such a thing. Did he come from the ground? Did he come from the sky? The water? We were confused...” —Papua New Guinea highlander1
In the early 1930s, the Leahy brothers of Australia led an expedition of explorers into the highlands of Papua New Guinea in search of gold. They were the first Europeans to penetrate the interior of the island—and happened to bring along filming equipment and cameras. The images they captured provide a firsthand view of the native population’s initial perceptions of the outsiders.
The native ...
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