Title Adam with arrows : inside New Guinea / Colin Simpson

Published Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1953

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	919.5 Sim/Awa		AVAILABLE
MELB SPC FLANNERY	919.5 Sim/Awa		UNAVAILABLE

Description 239 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm Contents The killers in the bark cloaks -- God mad New Guinea on Saturday night -- The terror with the somewhat ridiculous name -- Arrows through the Gates of Eldorado -- Cross the Watut and you might come back -- McCarthy finds Menyamya, and the Arrows find him -- The Dragon Bird is late returning -- So they stayed in the Wrong-kind-of-stone age -- A women of Oxford lives with the Kukukukus -- Hurrell ges to Menyamya and builds a round house -- The screams from across the Tauri River -- The rites of Marita, the fruit that is blood -- Arrows in the pathway, music in the night -- The vengeance of Wamaengan, and the law -- I get to Moloney's Menyamya and on patrol -- Missionaries: 'The sunand the moon will do go out' -- Here is cannibalism, and the honouring of a killer -- The smoked red dead on the mountain -- Murder, progress: the Kukukuku in the crystal ball -- The robable Pygmies of 'Gulliver' Linsley -- The Little People of Pinata, and the known Pygmies -- Patrol in the Wigmen's mountains -- The continent childre of Karna the moon -- The Huggers who live on the High Plateau -- The feel of the first white visitors -- Naked frontier -- The outpost of Telefolmin, and the murderous Mianmins -- The Phallocrypt wearers and their ancestral eagle -- Ordeals of initiation into Telefolmin manhood -- "The sergeant says the station may be done over' -- The deadline for bringing all areas under control -- The shame of Adam, and the Men from Mars Analysis Australian Ethnology - Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea - Discovery and exploration Notes National Library's NL2 copy with bookplate of "Prime Minister's Lodge Canberra" ANL Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Ethnology -- New Guinea. Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Pygmies. New Guinea -- Description and travel. New Guinea -- Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel. LC no. nun00494641

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