Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Reel 1, British New Guinea Report for the Year 1888

AU PMB DOC 312-03
Stuk
1888

Part of British New Guinea Annual Reports

Reel 1, British New Guinea Report for 1895-1896

AU PMB DOC 312-10
Stuk
1895-1896

Part of British New Guinea Annual Reports

"H.D. [Henry Dexter], Laki (Cookboy) & dog at entrance to temporary humpy occupied while new house being built. Otamata Plantation, Cape Rodney. Papua E.D. May 1916."

Part of Photographs from Samarai, Kwato, Abau Island, Port Moresby and elsewhere in Papua

Reel 2, British New Guinea Report for the Year Ending 30 June 1905

AU PMB DOC 312-19
Stuk
1 July 1904 - 30 June 1905

Part of British New Guinea Annual Reports

Notes sur les Moeurs et Coutumes des Fujuges, specialement des Tribus d'Alo et Sivu

AU PMB MS 6
Collectie
Notes completed in 1937

Father Paul Fastre, M.S.C. (born 1880), was a member of the Roman Catholic Mission in Western Papua, whose headquarters are at Yule Island. His notes were completed in 1937.

Notes on the customs of the Fujuges (English Fuyuges) people of the Mt. Scratchley-Chirima River area of the Central and Northern Districts of Papua New Guinea. Principally:

Ceremonies, dances and songs, including the major ceremony, Le Gabe;
Warfare;
Chiefs (Utumi);
Engagement and marriage;
Conception and childbirth;
Naming;
Nose-piercing;
Illness;
Funerals and mourning;
Treatment of murderers;
Beliefs and cults;
Magic;
Legends;
Property; and
Fishing, hunting and agriculture.

Fastre, Paul

Vocabulary of Bohilai

AU PMB MS 64
Collectie
1934 - 1952

Father Baldwin spent several years at the Sacred Heart Mission in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea.

A 333 page Bohilai-English vocabulary. Bohilai is the language of Basilaki Island (formerly Moresby Island), one of the islands of the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua. Additional language material by Father Baldwin is available as PMB 1031

Baldwin, Bernard