The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea
London, Macmillan and Co., 1912.
Octavo, xxiv, 364 pages with 10 illustrations plus 71 pages of plates and a large folding colour map.
Maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge gilt, others uncut; cloth lightly marked and rubbed; leading edge a little foxed, with minimal very light foxing elsewhere; half-title and verso of the map offset; an excellent copy.
'This book is the outcome of an expedition to British New Guinea in 1910, in which, after ... a preparatory and instructive journey in New Guinea among the large villages of the Mekeo district, I struck across country by a little known route, via Lapeka, to Ido-Ido and on to Dilava, and thus passed by way of further preparation through the Kuni country, and ultimately reached the district of the Mafulu villages, of whose people very little was known' (preface).
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