Depicts life in Port Moresby, Papua, including the history of the London Missionary Society mission and its pioneer missionaries, and the current life of the mission.

This film is a record of two trips by the director to the Torres Strait Islands, and to Papua in 1920-21 and 1922-23.

ACTUALITY. Titles (2). LS of native dancers, four groups of two men dance backwards and forwards from each other and then dance in a circle. They carry long thin drums which they beat with a stick. A group of natives also look on. (79). Dancers then ...

ACTUALITY. Record of maginogo dancing by men and women of the Koita tribe. In the background a boy attempts to climb a greasy pole (45ft).

Note: Almost certainly filmed at the "durbar" of the Central Division tribes organised by Capt. Francis ...

ACTUALITY. Dance performed by men and women of the Koita tribe, Papua. In the background a boy tries to shin up a greasy pole (46ft) Note: Almost certainly filmed at the "durbar" of the Central Division tribes organised by Capt. Francis Rickman Barton ...

ACTUALITY. Lakwaharu men and women from Tupuselei village, Papua, perform a dance (67ft).

Note: Almost certainly filmed at the "durbar" of the Central Division tribes organised by Capt. Francis Rickman Barton at Port Moresby in 1904.