Album of Papúa Types II. North New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, German Salomon Islands

Abstract

THROUGH the energy and skill of Mr. Parkinson, Dr. Meyer has been enabled to publish a second album of photographs illustrating Melanesian ethnology. The present album supplements the first one, which was published in 1894, and is now out of print. The photographs are well taken, and give us instructive glimpses of native life. The short explanation of each plate is printed in German and English, and these little accounts frequently contain notes of great interest, and there are helpful references to previous publications. There is a photograph (pl. xxiii. 2) of a girl playing the “pangolo.” In his admirable memoir on “The Natural History of the Musical Bow,” Mr. H. Balfour gives an account of the playing of this interesting musical instrument, which differs from that described by Meyer and Parkinson, the original account of the pangolo, by Dr. O. Finsch, being insufficient. Mr. Balfour evidently read into Finsch's figure more than it was intended to convey.

Album of Papúa. Types II. North New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, German Salomon Islands.

By Dr. A. B. Meyer R. Parkinson. About 550 figures on 53 plates in heliotype. (Dresden: Stengel and Co., 1900.) Price 50s.