The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

About this eBook

Author

Williamson, Robert Wood, 1856-1932

Title

The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/

Language

English

LoC Class

GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology

Subject

Ethnology -- New Guinea

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17910

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17910

Release Date

March 4, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Mafulu — — Mountain People of British New Guinea
2. 2.With Illustrations and Map Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin’s Street, London 1912
3. 3.Preface
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.Plates
6. 6.Illustrations in Text
7. 7.Introduction
8. 8.Introductory
9. 9.Physique and Character — Physique. — Character and Temperament.
10. 10.Dress and Ornament — Dress. — Physical Body Decoration, &c. — Ornaments. — Figure 1.
11. 11.Daily Life and Matters Connected with It — Daily Life. — Food. — Cooking and Eating and Their Utensils. — Various Implements. — Figure 2. — Domestic Animals. — Etiquette.
12. 12.Community, Clan, and Village Systems and Chieftainship — Communities, Clans, and Villages. — Figure 3. — Chiefs, Sub-Chiefs and Notables and Their Emone
13. 13.Villages, Emone, Houses and Modes of Inter-Village Communication — Villages and Their Emone and Houses. — Figure 4. — Figure 5. — Figure 6. — Communications.
14. 14.Government, Property, and Inheritance — Government and Justice. — Property and Inheritance.
15. 15.The Big Feast — Figure 7.
16. 16.Some other Ceremonies and Feasts — Ceremony on Birth. — Ceremony on Assumption of Perineal Band. — Ceremony on Admission to Emone. — Ceremony Conferring Right to Use Drum and Dance. — Ceremony on Devolution of Chieftainship — Ceremony on Building of a New Emone.
17. 17.Matrimonial and Sexual
18. 18.Killing, Cannibalism, and Warfare — Killing. — Cannibalism. — Warfare.
19. 19.Hunting, Fishing and Agriculture — Hunting. — Fishing. — Agriculture.
20. 20.Bark Cloth Making, Netting and Art. — Bark Cloth Making and Netting. — Bark Cloth Making. — Netting. — Figure 8. — Figure 9. — Figure 10. — Art, Design, etc.
21. 21.Music and Singing, Dancing and Toys and Games — Music and Singing. — Dancing. — Toys and Games.
22. 22.Counting, Currency and Trade — Counting. — Currency and Trade.
23. 23.Language
24. 24.Illness, Death, and Burial — Ailments and Remedies. — Death and Burial. — Death and Burial.
25. 25.Religion and Superstitious Beliefs and Practices — Religion and Superstitions. — Sorcery. — Charms. — Omens. — General. — Taboo.
26. 26.Note on the Kuni People
27. 27.Conclusion
28. 28.A Grammar of the Fuyuge Language — Phonology. — I. Alphabet. — II. Elision. — III. Vowel Changes. — Nouns. — I. Gender. — II. Number. — III. Case. — IV. Interrogative Nouns. — V. Demonstrative Nouns. — Adjectives. — II. Adjectives of Quality. — III. Demonstrative Adjectives. — IV. Interrogative Adjectives. — V. Indefinite Adjectives. — VI. Possessive Adjectives. — Numerals. — Pronouns. — I. Personal Pronouns. Simple. — II. Personal Pronouns. Compound. — III. Possessive Pronouns. — IV. Interrogative Pronouns. — V. Indefinite Pronouns. — VI. Relative Pronouns. — Verbs. — I. Conjugation. — II. The Particle, Ga. — III. Person and Number. — IV. Tense and Mode. — V. Negation. — VI. Interrogative. — VII. Substantive Verb. — VIII. Auxiliary Verbs. — IX. Verbal Suffixes. — X. Verbal Prefixes. — XI. Irregular Verbs. — XII. Notes on Some Verbs. — Adverbs. — II. Adverbs of Place. — III. Adverbs of Time. — IV. Adverbs of Quantity. — V. Adverbs of Affirmation, Negation and Interrogation. — VI. Adverbs of Manner and Likeness. — Prepositions and Postpositions. — I. Prepositions. — II. Postpositions. — III. List of Postpositions. — IV. Prepositional Phrases. — Conjunctions. — I. Copulative. — II. Adversative. — III. Sequence. — Interjections. — Notes on Dependent Clauses.
29. 29.Note on the Afoa Language
30. 30.Note on the Kovio Language.
31. 31.A Comparative Vocabulary of the Fuyuge, Afoa, and Kovio Languages
32. 32.Notes on the Papuan Languages spoken about the Head Waters of the St. Joseph River, Central Papua — I. Classification. — II. Comparison. — III. Papuan and Melanesian.
33. 33.Plates — Plate 1. — Plate 2. — Plate 3. — Plate 4. — Plate 5. — Plate 6. — Plate 7. — Plate 8. — Plate 9. — Plate 10. — Plate 11. — Plate 12. — Plate 13. — Plate 14. — Plate 15. — Plate 16. — Plate 17. — Plate 18. — Plate 19. — Plate 20. — Plate 21. — Plate 22. — Plate 23. — Plate 24. — Plate 25. — Plate 26. — Plate 27. — Plate 28. — Plate 29. — Plate 30. — Plate 31. — Plate 32. — Plate 33. — Plate 34. — Plate 35. — Plate 36. — Plate 37. — Plate 38. — Plate 39. — Plate 40. — Plate 41. — Plate 42. — Plate 43. — Plate 44. — Plate 45. — Plate 46. — Plate 47. — Plate 48. — Plate 49. — Plate 50. — Plate 51. — Plate 52. — Plate 53. — Plate 54. — Plate 55. — Plate 56. — Plate 57. — Plate 58. — Plate 59. — Plate 60. — Plate 61. — Plate 62. — Plate 63. — Plate 64. — Plate 65. — Plate 66. — Plate 67. — Plate 68. — Plate 69. — Plate 70. — Plate 71. — Plate 72. — Plate 73. — Plate 74. — Plate 75. — Plate 76. — Plate 77. — Plate 78. — Plate 79. — Plate 80. — Plate 81. — Plate 82. — Plate 83. — Plate 84. — Plate 85. — Plate 86. — Plate 87. — Plate 88. — Plate 89. — Plate 90. — Plate 91.

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