By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea
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Four American expedition members with the Expedition's airplane (the "Ern") as they set out from Maywood, Illinois in 1925. Clockwise from top left: Albert C. Hamer, Hans Hoyte, Stanley Hedberg and the photographer/filmmaker Richard Peck.
From: By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea Paul Michael Taylor, Smithsonian, 2006
An American expedition member, probably Stanley Hedberg, reaches out to a Papuan man in New Guinea's western Lakes Plains (Mamberamo River basin), in 1926.
From: By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea
Paul Michael Taylor, Smithsonian, 2006
Photographer/filmmaker Richard Peck operating the movie camera among villagers, Agintawa district, Nassau Mountains of New Guinea, 1926. The expedition was the first to use an airplane, and the first to use moving pictures, in the exploration of New Guinea.
From: By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea Paul Michael Taylor, Smithsonian, 2006
The Dutch and Ameircan Expedition traveled to the highlands by first going up the Mamberamo River (May to July, 1926), passing many lowland Papuan villages including Takutamesa, where this man was photographed holding his palmwood bow and barbed arrows.
From: By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea Paul Michael Taylor, Smithsonian, 2006
