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

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Annotations to the Journal of Stanley Hedberg

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August 1, 1926 Gentlemen of the Science River

Hedberg will also just refer to this as the “unknown river,” while Stirling refers to this as the "Brown River."
See photos from "Brown River"
See Film Selection #18

 

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