Philology, etc. 81 



In these studies it has been possible to dissect out earlier and later migrations and 

 to a satisfactory extent to translate into terms of geography the results of philo- 

 logical comparison. 



No. 184. FINLEY, J. P., and WILLIAM CHURCHILL. The Subanu: Studies of a Sub- 

 Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao. Octavo, iv+236 pages, 2 plates. 

 Published 1913. Price $2.00. 



In Part I of this work Colonel John Park Finley, U. S. Army, has furnished a 

 record of the present stage of this mountain tribe of Mindanao, a race hitherto 

 practically untouched by even such culture as the Moros of the coast possess. 

 Since St. Francis Xavier gave them up in despair they have remained in unmixed 

 savagery until now they are being brought within the civilizing efforts of American 

 endeavor. This record is as complete as could be obtained by ten years of admin- 

 istrative contact with this shy and rude folk. In collating the linguistic material 

 collected in the intervals of campaigns by the military author, Mr. Churchill has 

 established the ethnic position of the race as archetypal in reference to the more 

 widely extended Visayan culture. This theme leads naturally to a careful discus- 

 sion of the Malayo-Polynesian speech family and the employment of this important 

 collection of new data to accomplish its demolition, thus clearing the way for a 

 free study of the respective language units which hitherto have been obscured by 

 an untenable association. 



No. 244. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. Sissano: Movements of Migration within and 

 through Melanesia. Octavo, 181 pp., 17 charts. Pub. 1916. Price $2.00. 



Newly available material derived from the Sissano, a people on the Arop lagoons 

 on the north coast of New Guinea, has been utilized in this work for the study of 

 one of the more intricate problems of the track of Polynesia migration out of 

 Indonesia. Objection has been raised against the suggestion that two migration 

 tracks were discernible in reference to New Guinea as in part obstacle and in part 

 conduit of folk movement. These tracks have been traced along the north coast 

 of the island and along the south coast through Torres Strait. It has been sug- 

 gested that the traces of Polynesian speech found in the Gulf of Papua have 

 reached that area by coastwise voyaging from the north coast to the southeast 

 peninsula and thence westward. By the employment of the speech material from 

 Sissano for the explication of the similar material found in the Torres Strait tract 

 it is established that all the evidence at present available indicates the probability 

 of the folk movement eastward from the Arafura Sea through Torres Strait inde- 

 pendently of the movement along the north coast. 



No. 253. IVENS, WALTER G. Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa'a 

 and Ulawa, Solomon Islands. With appendices, vii+249 pp., 12 

 plates. 1 fig. Published 1918. Price $3.00. 



This dictionary of a language in use in the southern region of the Solomon 

 Islands is a distinct contribution to the little-studied philology of the Western 

 Pacific and fills a serious gap which has existed in the investigation of the lan- 

 guages of Melanesia. The nearest languages which have received dictionary record 

 are Mota in the New Hebrides far to the south and Pala in New Ireland equally 

 distant to the north. Evidences of certain common elements which are discover- 

 able in the speech of Ulawa indicate that this work will prove of value in the 

 examination of the movement of population through the island chains of this 

 region of the Pacific. In addition to the vocabulary material the author has sup- 

 plied copious information as to the life of the people of Ulawa and of the adjacent 

 region on the southern cape of the large island of Malaita and has given a state- 

 ment of the beginning and progress of the work of Christian missions among 

 these savages. 



