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Papua or British New Guinea

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "I am fully conscious of my numerous disqualifications for the work that I have undertaken.

    I do not know anything of ethnology, geology, botany, or indeed of any other science, but having given some of the best years of my life to the administration of the government of the territory, it appeared to me not improbable that I had acquired a certain amount of information which might be of use to others, though at the same time I wish it to be clearly understood that I do not presume to dogmatise about any of the points upon which I have touched, for I fully admit that others, equally well qualified to judge, may very well entertain opinions diametrically opposed to my own."--Preface.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    GN671.N5 MUR (Library of Congress Call Number)

    24529 (Cat ID)

    20107 (DBTextworks system ID)

    16141 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Papua or British New Guinea
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    T. Fisher Unwin
  • Place
  • Date
    1913
  • Physical Description

    388 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    2 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Provenance Details
    Copy 12706 has 'J Hamilton Fairley' and a stylised initial 'EA 1947' handwritten in ink on the front endpaper.
    Copy 12706 also has an armorial book plate for Sir Alexander Perceval Mathieson, Baronet of Lochalsh on inside front board.
  • Content
    Introduction -- Papuan geography -- Papuan geography (continued) -- History -- The Native population -- The Native population (continued) -- The Native population (continued) -- The Native population (continued) -- Administration of justice -- Administration of justice (continued) -- Exploration -- Exploration (continued) -- Exploration (continued) -- Development -- Development (continued) -- Conclusion -- index.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Papua (Indonesia)--History; Papua (Indonesia)--Social life and customs; Papua (Indonesia)--Politics and government]

    First published in 1912. Digitised and available via Project Gutenberg Australia, see link in this record.

  • Associated Notes
  • Subject Notes
    Sir John Hubert Plunkett Murray KCMG (29 December 1861 - 27 February 1940) was a judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua from 1908 until his death at Samarai.
    See link in the record to a fuller biography of Murray.
  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
    General Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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