Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, pp.77-150
- AU PMB MS 63-01b
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- 1936-1939
Part of Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, compiled by Father Bernard Baldwin, a missionary with the Sacred Heart Mission in Papua New Guinea.
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Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, pp.77-150
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Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, compiled by Father Bernard Baldwin, a missionary with the Sacred Heart Mission in Papua New Guinea.
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, pp.311-385
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Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, compiled by Father Bernard Baldwin, a missionary with the Sacred Heart Mission in Papua New Guinea.
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, pp.231-310
Part of Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, compiled by Father Bernard Baldwin, a missionary with the Sacred Heart Mission in Papua New Guinea.
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, pp.151-230
Part of Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, compiled by Father Bernard Baldwin, a missionary with the Sacred Heart Mission in Papua New Guinea.
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, pp.1-76
Part of Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa, compiled by Father Bernard Baldwin, a missionary with the Sacred Heart Mission in Papua New Guinea.
Father Baldwin spent several years at the Sacred Heart Mission in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. He completed this vocabulary between 1936 and 1937.
A 380 page Biga Boyowa-English vocabulary, inscribed Gusaweta Trobriand Isl. Nov 20th 1939. Biga Boyowa is a Trobriand Island language. See also PMB MS 41 and MS 64. Additional language material by Father Baldwin will be available as PMB 1031
Baldwin, Bernard
Biga Boyowa - A notional study of the Trobriand Islands language, pp1-112
Part of Biga Boyowa - A notional study of the Trobriand Islands language
Biga Boyowa - A notional study of the Trobriand Islands language, by Father Bernard Baldwin of the Sacred Heart Mission. Completed c.1940.
Baldwin, Bernard
Biga Boyowa - A notional study of the Trobriand Islands language
Father Bernard Baldwin spent several years at the Sacred Heart Mission in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea.
In an introduction to his work, Father Baldwin says that Biga Boyowa is the language of the district commissioner's office (in the Trobriands area), mission translations, school programmes and the anthropological works of Malinowski, Powell, Uberoi, and others. He goes on: "Mastery of the Biga Boyowa will enable conversation with people of the Lousancays, Marshall Bennets, Woodlarks, Laughlans, Amphletts and a goodly number of those living to the south, upwards of sixteen thousand people. To know the Boyowan language and culture is to know in a way the better half of the language and culture of the rest of the Massim people. Contact with these is frequent and familiar, and the evidence of the interpenetration of their language and culture with Boyowan abundant..."
See also PMB 63 and PMB 64.
Baldwin, Bernard