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Edgar Waite contributed over a thousand items to the Foreign Ethnology collections in 1918 when he travelled to New Guinea on the Museum's first Pacific expedition and collected natural history and ethnographic specimens totalling six shipping tonnes, mostly from New Ireland. Almost half the ethnographic material was bought from other collectors in New Guinea, thus achieving representation from a much wider geographical area than he himself visited.
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Edgar Waite contributed over a thousand items to the Foreign Ethnology collections in 1918 when he travelled to New Guinea on the Museum's first Pacific expedition and collected natural history and ethnographic specimens totalling six shipping tonnes, mostly from New Ireland. Almost half the ethnographic material was bought from other collectors in New Guinea, thus achieving representation from a much wider geographical area than he himself visited.