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Description
The Congregation". Group of men and children on beach. Categorized as "Delena: Missionaries and Church Work." One of set of 114 mounted prints by H.M. Dauncey, categorized as: Missionaries and Church Work Educational Home Life and Occupations Manners and Customs or Landscape. Dauncey served the L.M.S. in Papua New Guinea, mainly in the Delena district , for forty years from 1888 to 1928. He published a book for children in 1913, entitled Papuan Pictures, which contains over sixty of his photographs. Dauncey describes the purpose of this book in the epilogue, "To enlist your sympathy and help for those who know a little, and for the many who remain who have never heard of the message, is the aim of these Papuan Pictures.
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