Identifier: fromeveryl00grosscenesrich (find matches)
Title: Scenes from every land, second series; a collection of 250 illustracions picturing the people, natural phenomena, and animal life in all parts of the world. With one map and a bibliography of gazetteers, atlases, and books descriptive of foreign countries and natural history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Views Physical anthropology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National geographic society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PAPUAN CANOES

The people rest themselves by folding up; they never sit as we do. Note the tripod for
holding the mast.— Photos by Thomas Barbour. Harvard University.

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

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ONE OF OUR BEST PAPUAN HELPERS AT DOREY, NEW GUINEA

This man was a good collector and may be seen here proudly displaying: his pay. A knife,
a tin can, and a key on a string he was almost as proud of as of his splendid head of hair and
the decorated bone pin which he had thrust through his nose. New Guinea is the last great
area remaining in the tropics which is still almost completely unknown. To be sure, its coasts
have been, and are still, frequently visited, and settlements exist on parts of the island, but
great stretches of seaboard still remain unmapped and all but a small part of the interior is
a blank on our charts. Its length is about 1.400 miles and its maximum breadth is 430 miles.
Its area is greater than that of Borneo, being about 300,000 square miles.— Photo by Thomas
Barbour, Harvard University.

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SCENES FROM EVERY LAND

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