Title First Contact / Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson

Published New York : Viking, 1987 1987

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MELB	306.09953 CON-F		AVAILABLE

Description 317 pages : illustrations Contents 1. What is beyond? -- 2. Lifting the veil -- 3. Skymen and the living dead -- 4. First casualties -- 5. The Wahgi -- 6. Men of all things -- 7. Moka -- 8. Bridewealth -- 9. Ewunga Creek -- 10. The outside world -- 11. Doi -- 12. The white man's burden -- 13. Why had they come? -- 14. Fine marriage potential -- 15. Church and state -- 16. End of Eden -- 17. Independence Summary The encounter in the 1930s between Australian gold prospectors lead by Michael Leahy and the highlanders of New Guinea, based on the photographs Leahy took and interviews with surviving natives and visitors Notes Bibliography:p.313-316 Bibliography Bibliography: pages 313-316 Subject Leahy, Michael J. Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979. Leahy, Michael (Michael James) Leahy, Michael (Michael James), 1901-1979 Leahy, Michael. Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners. Leahy, Michael James Primitive societies -- First contact with Occidental civilization Primitive societies -- First contact with Europeans SUBJECT Papua New Guinea http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81034915 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238 Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116522 Author Anderson, Robin. LC no. 86040307 ISBN 0670801674

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