Damp Ceremony
Photograph
Damp Ceremony
Dutch Quit New Guinea
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 × 9 5/16 in. (17.8 × 23.6 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0381
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (New Guinea) 10/62 5) DAMP CEREMONY: The formal transfer of West New \ Guinea to the supervision of the United Nations took place \ in the public square of Hollandia, capital of the \ territory. As Temporary Administrator José rolz-Bennett \ and former Dutch Governor Veldcamp(left to right) \ listened under umbrellas, a Papuan read the proclamations \ of the new order. \ Credit: UNITED NATIONS © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
