This interior view of a longhouse in Maipua Village shows the variety of masks and spirit boards, there called kwoi, that were kept inside. The style of this board is identical to that of another board in the exhibition from the Tomkins Collection.

In several locations, Lewis's photographs were some of the first to be made. Images made by the outsiders who followed him, such as Ernest Usher and Kathleen Haddon, often depict the same villages and shrines, so we can see the art, customs, and local individuals change over time. With Lewis's work, the corpus of pictures expands and becomes self-referential.