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- Title
- Nun hunts crocodiles for mission.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: C-31791 NUN HUNTS CROCODILES FOR MISSION MOVEAVE, Papua -- With high-powered rifle ready, Sister Joseph Mary sails up-river from her remote mission hospital at Moveave, on the southwest coast of Papua, New Guinea, on a hunt for crocodiles. Spotting one, she will aim and fire and her assistants will drag the crocodile’s body aboard. Later the nun and her aides skin the crocodile and sell the skin to Australian traders, with proceeds going to her mission. A British author of adventure stories, Richard Pape, has credited Sister Joseph Mary with saving his life when grave infection followed an injury in the jungles of Moveave. Mr. Pape said he was brought to the mission hospital and the nun “pumped her entire stock of antibiotics into me.” Later he was taken to a hospital in Port Moresby where the completed his recovery. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PP-11A-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Pictorial Parade, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, October 22, 1964, October 22, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Missions--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Nuns--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province., Missionaries--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province., Women missionaries--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province., Hunting--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province., Hunting rifles--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province.
- Geographic subjects
- Papua New Guinea, Gulf Province., Papua New Guinea, Gulf Province., Papua New Guinea, Gulf Province., Papua New Guinea, Gulf Province., Papua New Guinea, Gulf Province., Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea), Oceania--Papua New Guinea--Gulf
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. C-31791; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_C-31791
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356550