New Guinea boys on one of the Torres Strait islands, Queensland, Australia.

A group of four New Guinea boys from a missionary schooner relaxing on the shore of one of the islands in the Torres Strait, possibly Thursday Island or Goode Island. They are scantily clad and three of them are wearing white armbands. A copy negative made by the NMM studio of photographic print number 130 in album 167.

Object Details

ID: P39203
Type: Negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: June 1881 - September 1881
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 100 mm x 125 mm
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