THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF BRITISH 

 NEW GUINEA. 



II. A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. 



A VALUABLE Bibliography of Nezv Guinea was com- 

 piled by Mr. E. C. Rye in 1SS4 (Roy. Geogr. Soc. 

 Suppl. Papers, i.), and this has been brought up to date 

 by Herr J. D. E. Schmeltz in 1893 I Dut tne hitter author 

 has done more than this, he has added a number of distri- 

 butional and bibliographical notes to the Memoir which he 

 has collaborated with F. S. A. de Clercq, and has given 

 tables showing the distribution of a large number of Papuan 

 objects and customs. In the appended bibliography will be 

 found the more important works of Dr. O. Finsch, to whom 

 students of the anthropology of the Western Pacific are so 

 greatly indebted ; no one interested in Papuan ethnography 

 can dispense with his Samoafahrten, the Ethnological Atlas, 

 or the highly important series of papers in the Annalen des 

 k. k. naturhist. Hof museums of Vienna, from 1888- 1893. 

 The Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, drawn by 

 J. Edge- Partington, is as invaluable to students of ethnology 

 as it is to collectors and curators. The Rev. W. G. Lawes, 

 of Port Moresby, has taken a large number of most excellent 

 photographs illustrating Papuan ethnology, and he has gene- 

 rously deposited the negatives with Mr. H. King, George 

 Street, Sydney, N. S. Wales, in order that anthropologists 

 might have the opportunity of purchasing authentic photo- 

 graphs. Mr. J. W. Lindt, of Melbourne, too, has numerous 

 beautiful photographs ; but the best of these are now pub- 

 lished in his Picturesque New Guinea. The present writer 

 has in the press a memoir describing and illustrating the 

 decorative art of the natives of British New Guinea, in 

 which will also be found descriptions and classifications 

 of implements, etc., and a compilation of many ethno- 

 graphical data. Mr. J. P. Thomson has compiled a book 



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