First Contact: New Guinea’s Highlanders Encounter the Outside World

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

In 1930 when the Leahy brothers of Australia led a gold-prospecting expedition into the highlands of Papua New Guinea they came into contact with a primitive civilization that had never before met people from the outside world. The story of the extraordinary 1930 encounter between a team of gold prospectors and a pre-technological civilization ignorant of the outside world, as remembered and photographed by those whose lives it changed. 100 black-and-white photographs. Leahy, Michael. | Ethnology — Papua New Guinea. | First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners — Papua New Guinea. | Papua New Guinea — Social life and customs. ix, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. #1019/191123