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Aruese man and children walking in a street in Dobo, Warmar Islands, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2023
Two men standing in the middle of the street in Dobo, Warmar Island, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2023
Six Japanese women in kimonos, Aru Islands Regency, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2023
Boat Three Cheers taking on stores, Aru Islands Regency, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2023
Three Cheers crew sorting and packing shells, Aru Islands Regency, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2023
Schooner Sketty Belle with sails unfurled, Aru Islands Regency, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2023
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James Milne Southern crewing on a pearling boat, Aru Islands Regency, 1908
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Two men standing in the middle of the street in Dobo, Warmar Island, 1908
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Dobo was a trade hub connecting various trade points in the eastern part of Oost Indie, as the Dutch called it during the colonization period. It linked Banda, Ambon, Gorom, Tual, and Papua and contributed to the fortunes of traders in exotic commodities exclusively found in the east. Although in the past, many praus (wooden boats) embarked from its port, today the economy in Dobo is not as advanced as those of its neighboring islands, such as Ambon. Source: www.insideindonesia.org/photo-essay-looking-for-dobo
Ship's carpenter getting into a diving suit before checking the schooner's hull, Aru Islands Regency, 1908
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Pearling has been carried out in Indonesian waters from very early times, with local divers collecting the shell. Some of the Indonesian divers went a con-siderable distance in search of shell. As Europeans extended their presence in the north of Australia, they saw Indonesians collecting pearls in Australian waters. The Aru Islands have been, and still are, one of the principal pearl-shell grounds in Indonesia. Al-though quite off the track of all European trade, these islands had by the early 19th century become the eastern terminus for the annual fleet of Bugis prahus from Ma-kassar (The Buginese are traders and seaborne colonists from south Sulawesi; see map, Fig. 2.) They were a source not only of pearls and mother-of-pearl, hut of such exotics as birds of paradise, tortoiseshell, trepang or sea slug, and edible birds’ nests. The British naturalist Alfred Wallace did the 1000-mile journey to the remote islands in a Bugis prahu in the 1850s (Fig. 4) and considered it quite an achieve-ment. “Even by the Makassar people themselves the voyage to the Aru Islands is looked upon as a rather wild and romantic expedi-tion, full of novel sights and strange adventures. He who has made it is looked up to as an authority, and it remains with many the unachieved ambition of their lives. I myself had hoped rather than expected ever to reach this “Ultima Thule” of the East…” (Wallace 1869:309). Source: www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/sampans-belangs-and-junkos/