Thirty years in the south seas : land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands
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Thirty years in the south seas : land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands
Crawford house, c1999
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Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee
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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.
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