Aboriginal Vocabulary of Tagula [Enclosure No. 3 in Despatch No. 97 of 16th September, 1890]

in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 24: Linguistics: Recent semantic studies) (London, England), in Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly During the Session of 1890, with the Various Documents Connected Therewith; Vol. VIII; Appendix X9, pp. 155-157 (originally published 1890), 4 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Four printed pages with torn and crumpled edges comprise a brief glossary of the dialect of the natives of Tagula Island in the Louisade group of Papua-New Guinea, reported to have been originally published in the Annual Report on British New Guinea, 1889-1890. The document includes an abridged version of the Royal Geographic Society's 'System of Orthography for Native Names of Places,' adopted around 1885. Written in pencil in the upper right corner of the first page is the notation 'Papua - Sud Est.'
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Copyright Message: Material sourced from the Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Collection, LSE Library. Used with Permission of the LSE Library and the Bronislaw Malinowski Estate.
Content Type: General reference book
Duration: 0 sec
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Original Publication Date: 1890
Page Count: 4
Page Range: 1-4
Source Title: Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly During the Session of 1890, with the Various Documents Connected Therewith; Vol. VIII; Appendix X9, pp. 155-157
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Austronesian languages, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Milne Bay Province, Pacific Islanders
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural