285 x 230 mm. The queen poses on the wooden steps of a hut; two Europeans can be seen in the shadow of a doorway. Queen Koloka of the Lolo people, was believed by the missionaries to have been the only queen in New Guinea and lived at Cape Suckling, but 'There was nothing indicative of a coronet about her head, nothing regal in her attire, nothing stately or dignified in her form or movements. She was simply a well-conditioned, dark copper-coloured woman, with black woolly hair worn in the form of a chignon, a rather flat nose, the body plentifully tattooed...' Lyne pp. 58-59. See also Lyne's account of the taking of this photograph on pp. 65-66. The print is an original for the illustration in Lyne p. 59, and in Chalmers' ' Pioneering in New Guinea', p. 193.