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A trained nurse, Annie Caroline Ker joined the Anglican mission in British New Guinea in 1899 and was stationed in Warigela. In her introduction to Papuan Fairy Tales (1910), Ker writes that she had collected the stories chiefly from 'the natives of a small village on the N.E. coast of Papua. I have known these people for nine years, and for part of that time lived alone amongst them in a little mission bungalow' (ix).
