Thirty years in the south seas : land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands

Author(s)

• Parkinson, R.
• Ankermann, B.
• Dennison, John
• White, J. Peter (John Peter)

Bibliographic Information

Thirty years in the south seas : land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands

by R. Parkinson ; edited by B. Ankermann ; translated by John Dennison ; translation edited by J. Peter White

Crawford house, c1999

Other Title

Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee

Note

Originally published: Strecker & Schroder, 1907

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This account of life in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 19th century should be useful for ethnographers and historians of the South Pacific. Parkinson's travels took him to New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, Buka and Bougainville. He observed religion, artefacts and language.

Table of Contents

• The German professor, Richard Parkinson
• New Britain with the French islands and the Duke of York
• New Ireland, New Hanover and their offshore islands
• St Matthias and the neighbouring islands
• the Admiralty Islands
• the Western Islands
• the German Solomon Islands, together with Nissan and the Carteret Islands
• the eastern islands (Nuguria, Tauu and Nukumanu)
• secret societies, totemism, mask and mask dances
• stories and fables
• languages
• cultigens and useful plants, domestic and hunted animals
• history of discovery.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA54487219
• ISBN:
  • 1850655456
• Country Code: at
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Bathurst, Australia
• Pages/Volumes: xxxvi, 378 p.
• Size: 30 cm