Collection MS 121 - Ethnographic notes on South Pacific Islands

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AU PMB MS 121

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Ethnographic notes on South Pacific Islands

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  • 1899 - 1900 (Creation)

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1 reel; 35mm microfilm

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Townsend and Moore were members of the US Fisheries Commission aboard the U.S. Fisheries Commission Steamer Albatross which made a cruise to the South Pacific in 1899 - 1900 under Commander Jefferson F. Moser, USN.

Ethnographic notes on the Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Society Islands (French Polynesia), Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Caroline Islands.

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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php

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ms121

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