Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): Papuans paddling fleet of canoe's across a lake. Zooming in on map of Netherlands New Guinea. Air views of mountains covered with jungle and clouds in the valleys. 01.24 Sunset. Flames are consuming houses in a village. Crowd of children storming into the water for greeting fleet of canoe's of which the crews take bleached skulls ashore. 02.42 Air views of broad river with narrow tributaries, meandering through rain forest. A single-engine Piper cub landing on a grass landing-strip, watched by Papuans, after which the freight is being unloaded and carried upwards by Papuans. 04.15 Missionary walks at the head of a row of bearers through the trackless country, is being halted by Papuans menacing with bows and arrows, after which he performs the knuckle greeting with a couple of them and follows them to their settlement. 05.59 Dancing procession of painted and armed Papuans, carrying along coconuts on poles, which they put down by the side of the altar, while the priest is putting on the vestments for the Holy Mass. Standing and kneeling between the two assistants in liturgical outfit, he celebrates the Holy Mass. The Papuan crowd, looking on, participates praying and crossing themselves. After that the priest puts a Host on the tongue of the communicants, and blesses the coconuts and the faithful with a holy-water sprinkler made of leaves. In the end the coconuts cut loose are carried off, and all this under continuous traditional singing, accompanied by drums from Papuans who didn't participate in the ceremonies. 10.29 Native woman teacher practises a song with a circle of Papuan girls of a primary school, accompanying it with gestures. At nuns' school girls are learning machine sewing, embroidering, ironing and mat-and-basket making. 11.18 Narrow-gauge train brings up students from the agricultural school. They will be spraying a field with insecticide in a single line. 12.00 Two lepers posing. The administration of injections to Papuans in an open-air polyclinic. Doctor examines belly (spleen) of boy on stretcher, after which native assistant takes blood from the boy's ear-lobe. 13.34 Girls are working the field with a hoe. 13.51 Extracting copal from the agathis-tree in the jungle. First the tappers make funnels, and then they cut V-shaped notches in the trunk. They collect the congealed resin and put it into back pouches. 15.17 Papuan woodcutters down trees in wood complex at Oransbari 16.05 Papuans on board fishing cutter 'De Goede Hoop' receive instruction about the setting of fishing-nets, the operation of the winch drawing in the net, after which they cut off the fins of the young sharks throwing the fins and the sharks in separate baskets. 17.39 Technical school, where Papuan boys are learning woodworking, such as: planing, wood carving, making and fitting of window-frames, autogenously welding and the operation of a turret lathe. 19.21 Building complex where Papuan boys receive theory classes on how to work with farming machinery and theodolite, and the maintenance of tractors. After this they ride out with caterpillar tractors and wheel tractors, threshing grain. The students working a field with a plough and a disc harrow, both machines pulled by a caterpillar dozer. 21.49 Road construction by means of an earth moving bulldozer, a road planer, pneumatic chisel and a spoon-dozer. Car traffic on the finished road from Hollandia Harbour to the upper town. 24.11 Erecting of an outer wall of blocks during house construction, of which the corrugated asbestos sheets for the roofing are cut to fit with a handsaw. Panorama of residential area with small family houses. 24.49 Air view of mountains densely covered with jungle. 25.08 Relief map of New Guinea on which the names of filmmakers are printed. 25.56 END.