"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

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Location Subject:
Agintawa District
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Z015
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Agintawa; men-women-children
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A group of men, women and children gathered around one of the houses at Agintawa awaiting the preparation of the meal. This picture shows rather well a typical pigmy house. Pigmy villages are almost always built on the tops of ridges in order that their gardens may get the maximum benefit of the sunlight. As a result, from every pigmy clearing there is a magnificent view.
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