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medical orderly caring for a small child in a local clinic in Papua New Guinea The mother holding the baby can be seen to have been recently widowed from the mud smeared on her face and the necklaces of the seeds of the grass Job's Tears Local village aid posts were set up to give basic medical care in the villages and to direct more serious cases to the nearest hospital Black and white 1972
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