Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New GuineaPratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar)
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Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea
Pratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar)
Ethnology -- New Guinea; Natural history -- New Guinea; New Guinea -- Description and travel
GIRLS DANCING ON A LAKATOI 75
EPA VILLAGE 85
EKEIKEI NATIVES 91
THE CAMP AT EKEIKEI 97
NATIVE COLLECTORS 101
HILL NATIVES AT DINAWA 109
DOBOI, OUR NATIVE COOK 115
THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF DINAWA 121
FISHING ON THE ST. JOSEPH RIVER 131
A ROUGH BRIDGE 137
NATIVE WOMEN AT DINAWA 145
THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY OF NEW GUINEA 149
NATIVES OF ENUMAKA 155
VEGETATION AT DINAWA 161
A PIEBALD PEOPLE 169
A HOUSE AT KALO 177
THE VILLAGES OF ELEVADA AND HANUABADA 187
NEW GUINEA HOUSE-BUILDING 193
THE PRIMEVAL FOREST 197
POLLING LAKATOIS 205
HOUSES AT HANUABADA 209
A DESERTED VILLAGE 215
HARRY PRATT 225
CAMP IN THE OWEN STANLEY RANGE 231
TWO VIEWS OF A NATIVE BRIDGE 237
CAMP IN THE OWEN STANLEY RANGE 245
UNKNOWN SPECIES DISCOVERED BY THE AUTHOR 251
THE AUTHOR AND SOME NATIVE COLLECTORS 255
A SPIDER’S WEB FISHING-NET 263
FISHING WITH SPIDERS’ WEB NETS 269
A WEIRD TRIBAL DANCE 275
A SEA-COAST SCENE 283
HANUABADA WOMEN WEARING THE RAMI 293
BUYING A WIFE 299
NEW GUINEA WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS 305
YOUNG NATIVES AND WOMEN CARRIERS 313
SMOKING THE BAU-BAU 319
A NEW GUINEA HUNT 327
HAULING UP A LOG 337
CHAPTER I
_BREAKING THE GROUND_
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