| Zusammenfassung: | James Richard Adams Wilkes (c. 1876-c. 1940) was born in New Zealand and traveled widely in the North Island as a young man with his camera, being the first to take a bicycle through the Urewera district. After travel through the Pacific, the Far East, Europe and Great Britain in 1902-1904, he worked as a colonial administrator in Nigeria where he photographed local life and collected about 370 artifacts. Moving to Papua New Guinea in 1914 as a colonial officer, he collected at least 200 artifacts and many photographs. In 1928, he presented these to Auckland Museum, which included the surviving 29 photographs, all of Papua New Guinea subjects. In 2003, a fortuitous contact with James's nephew provided detailed biographical information which is presented here with comment on his collections and more detailed information on his Papua New Guinea photographs.
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