Chapter I: Front Matter

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PAPUAN PICTURES

_Frontispiece._]

PAPUAN PICTURES

by

H. M. DAUNCEY

(Of Delena, Papua)

With Sixty-Three Illustrations from Photographs by the Author

London London Missionary Society 16, New Bridge Street 1913

_With greetings to the boys and girls whose meetings I had the happiness to attend in the Old Home Land and in Australia, and the hope that the memories of those meetings are as bright and lasting to them as they are to me._

H. M. DAUNCEY.

Contents

CHAP. PAGE

I GAMES AND SCHOOL 1

II THE CONCEITED YOUTH 17

III KEEPING HOUSE 23

IV GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER 43

V THE SORCERER 44

VI A SANDALWOOD CHURCH, AND AN INCIDENT 53

VII A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS 59

VIII A FEAST AND A DANCE 72

IX HOW WE GO 79

X KORONA, A HILLSIDE VILLAGE 112

XI KABADI 123

XII A CHRISTMAS GATHERING 144

XIII DOCTORING 157

XIV PEACE-MAKING 163

XV SOME PICTURES OF LIFE 172

XVI THE AIM 183

List of Coloured Plates

TO FACE PAGE
Tima of Delena _Frontispiece_
Rocking the Cradle 33
A Hearth 39
Returning from Fishing 61

List of Illustrations

TO FACE PAGE
Delena Children 8
Two Convenient Handles 8
“I Protest!” 9
Parent and Child 9
Would he Take a Prize? 24
Throwing the Spear 25
Whip-tops in Season 25
Paroparo 28
The Snake Game 29
Delena School Group 29
The Cuscus Game 36
A Fine Frizzy Head 37
A Friend Lends a Hand 37
A Tight-laced Dandy 44
Bringing in the Firewood 44
Bridal Procession 45
“Out like a Coal-scuttle Bonnet” 45
Firing Pots 52
Making Pots 52
Thatchers at Work 53
Delena House 53
Dressed up in Paint and Feathers 56
Cooking Supper 56
The Cradle 57
Waiting for Mother 72
The Front Steps 72
Papuan Treasures 73
Cooking Food under the House 73
Miria the Sorcerer 76
Delena Church 76
Nara Village and Church 77
Queen Koloka 77
Nara Dancers 84
Delena Man at Nara Dance 84
Who is He? 85
Round the Rocks 85
Breakfast on the Beach 88
The Papuan Tailor 88
A Long Drink 89
Oa 89
Hisiu Girls in their Best 104
Morabi Village 104
Bad Walking: Over the Mangrove Roots 105
Fafoa with her Boy and Papauta 105
Scramble in Front of Timoteo’s House 120
A Widower 121
A Crocodile 121
Kopuana School 136
Delena Mission House 136
Delena District Teachers 137
Motumotu Man 137
A Well-oiled Amazon 152
Ume and the Crocodile 152
Miria Making Fire 153
The Blow-pipe 153
The Kaiva-Kuku 168
Native Surgery 168
Basket-making at Delena 169
Smiles 169