1930 Orokaiva Society

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, thirty-four plates, one of which is folding, and twenty-five figures in the text. Collated complete. A comprehensive and detailed study of the Orokaiva People of Papua New Guinea, with reference to their daily life, hunting, family and clan, marriage, warfare, ceremonies, dance and drama, medicine, magic, spirituality, and life after death. Written by Francis Edgar Williams, an Australian anthropologist who worked for the government in the Territory of Papua for twenty years. With an introduction by Sir Hubert Murray, a judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua.