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

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Location Subject:
Agintawa District
Filename:
Z041
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Agintawa women (preparing fire)
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Two women preparing a fire. Wood is gathered from the jungle, chopped into appropriate lengths with stone axes and piled as shown in this picture. The woman in the foreground is blowing on the live coals which have been kept during the day in the ashes in order to ignite the new fire. The fence in the background is covered with weeds pulled from the garden which lies beyond the fence. The tall plants are sugar cane bound to tall poles in order that it will grow upright.
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