The Nada Language

Name: The Nada Language
Author: Sir William MacGregor, 1846-1919

written by Sir William MacGregor, 1846-1919, in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (Yale), of Yale University. Sterling Memorial Library. Manuscripts and Archives (Linguistic Notes and Lectures, based on Trobriand Islands Fieldwork, Vocabulary: Lexicographical) (New Haven, CT), in British New Guinea, Appendix VI, by J. P. Thomson et al, pp. 322-326 (originally published 1892), 8 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: An eight-page, printed document contains a vocabulary of the Nada people on Laughlan Island near the Trobriands, originally published as an appendix to 'British New Guinea' by J.P. Thomson et al, 1892. The vocabulary was compiled by Sir William MacGregor, then administrator of British New Guinea. At the top are the written notations 'Melan,' presumably for Melanesia; and 'Laughlan Is.'
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Author: Sir William MacGregor, 1846-1919
Content Type: General reference book
Duration: 0 sec
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Original Publication Date: 1892
Page Count: 8
Page Range: 1-8
Source Title: British New Guinea, Appendix VI, by J. P. Thomson et al, pp. 322-326
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