Missionary and wife eating breakfast on travels, Delena, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1905-1915

Breakfast on the beach." H.M and Mrs Dauncey with two Papuan boys.; Categorized as "Delena: Missionaries and Church Work." Dauncey describes the journey on which this photograph was taken in his children's publication, Papuan Pictures, in the following manner. "At last light begins to show from behind the Owen Stanley range to our left, and the beauty of the sun-rise is often worth the long hours in the boat. We are in good time, so will land and have a morning cup of tea. Water is in the boat, and firewood is all around, so there is not much time lost, and while we are enjoying real 'Billy tea' the boys are roasting bananas in the fire. Had we been smart we might have had turtle eggs for breakfast, for natives coming along a few hours later found that our fire was made within a couple of yards of a nest containing a bucketful of eggs."; 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.