Pearls and Savages

Pearl and Savages is a 1921 documentary from filmmaker Frank Hurley about the people of Papua New Guinea and Torres Strait.

Reviews were strong, one critic calling it probably the most beautifully photographed pictorial of the kind that has ever been screened.Hurley then visited Papua again at his own expense in 1923 to shoot additional footage. He was accompanied by Allan McCullock from the Australian Museum in Sydney. During the trip they obtained hundreds of cultural objects, angering the administrator of Papua the time, Sir Herbert Murray. Murray arranged for some objects to be returned to their owners but the rest were deposited in the Australian Museum. In 1925 Murray would refuse to allow Hurley to enter Papua to make another film. ........

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