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

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Location Subject:
Agintawa District
Filename:
Z027
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Agintawa-women-costume-burden bag
C3:
Women at work in the field. The middle figure is shown using the planting stick. In this instance the women are planting sweet potatoes. The woman on the extreme left is afflicted with goiter, a common ailment among the pigmy women of this region. A large number of instances of goiter were observed among the women but none among the men.
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