The Abelam. A People of Papua New Guinea
[Sydney], Australian Museum, 1982. More
[Sydney], Australian Museum, 1982. More
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925 [first edition]. Not least, life in New Guinea after ANMEF (the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force) had removed the Germans in 1914, and some of the problems facing Australian colonisation in NG (Australia received a mandate from the League of Nations to govern PNG in 1921)..... More
London, Routledge, 1932 (second impression)/ 1922. Rare with the dustwrapper. More
London, Routledge and Kegan, 1964 [sixth impression]/ 1922. More
Kensington, Bay Books, 1982. More
London, Routledge, 1931 [first edition]. The author's second book. More
Munster, Aschendorff, 1909. Myths and legends of the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, with parallel text in both the original Tolai and German (and an early example on both counts). 'Anthropos-Bibliothek. Internationale Sammlung Ethnologischer Monographien. Band 1, Heft 1'. More
Adelaide, Department for Church Cooperation in World Mission of the Lutheran Church of Australia, 2001. More
Hong Kong, Produced for the handcraft industry of Papua New Guinea by SPATF (South Pacific Appropriate Technology Foundation), [1988]. More
Bathurst, Robert Brown and Associates, 1983. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (second impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1921 (fourth edition). The author was 'sometime official member of executive and legislative councils, resident magistrate and warden for goldfields, high sheriff and high bailiff, and senior officer of armed constabulary for H.M.'s possession of New Guinea'. More
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. Edited, with an introduction, by Peter Biskup. Number seven in the Pacific History series. More
Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. An illustrated catalogue of the sound-producing instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute Museum. More
Port Moresby, Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, 1967. More
Sydney, Geographical Society of Australasia, 1885. A scientific expedition, from June to December 1885, under the leadership of Captain Henry Charles Everill on SS 'Bonito'; it explored the Fly and Strickland Rivers. Everill's short report was published in 1886. Ferguson 14504; not in McLaren (but see 8031 for a separately..... More
[New Guinea, Unknown Photographer, circa 1930s?]. Two photographs show ornately decorated men in a village. The other one features two young girls in grass skirts holding posies (or something similar); the word 'lusious [sic]' is written in ink on the verso. A fourth snapshot (64 × 108 mm, on 'Velox'..... More
Amsterdam, Tentoonstelling Tropenmuseum, 1958. Text in Dutch. Kon. Instituut voor de Tropen no. CXXIX Afd. Culturele en Physische Anthropologie no. 59. More
[Adelaide, No Publisher, 2019]. 'Irmgard Horndasch, nee Marek, was born and raised in East Berlin and came to the West before the building of the Wall. She met and fell in love with Heinrich Bergmann, a missionary's son. They married in New Guinea in 1958 and the following year Heinrich..... More
Barmen, Missionshauses, 1927. More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. The half-title is inscribed 'Presented to Carl H.F. Werner Esq by the Writer February 1910'. This book was published to wide critical acclaim. Lindt was awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 'with special mention for his ethnological photographs, landscapes..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1942. John Lloyd Preece (1895-1969), one of the sons of the noted Adelaide bookseller and publisher F.W. Preece, was himself an influential bookseller, publisher and proprietor of Preece's Gallery. He 'studied English at the University of Adelaide ... In 1926 he visited Italy with Lionel..... More
Hamburg, Cram, de Gruyter and Co., 1948. Monographien zur Volkerkunde, Number 1. This is the first of three volumes on the Mbowamb, Mount Hagen tribes in East Central New Guinea. The date of publication is printed '1943-1948'. Apparently, this volume was published in 1948; the other two volumes appeared in..... More