Abstract
MR. F. E. WILLIAMS is the Government anthropologist of Papua, and has previously published several valuable researches on Papuan native life. The area which forms the subject of the present work is the far south-west of Papua, extending to the immediate vicinity of the boundary of Dutch New Guinea. This district, intersected by the Bensbach, the Morehead and certain other rivers, is very unattractive from the geographical point of view. The whole coastal region of the Morehead district, as it is generally called, lies exceedingly low and consists of clayey alluvial ground. During the rainy season a great portion of the country is flooded, and travellers have to plod ankle-deep, knee-deep, through water and mud for miles together.
Papuans of the Trans-Fly
By F. E. Williams. Pp. xxi + 452 + 20 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 30s. net.
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LANDTMAN, G. Native Life in South-west Papua. Nature 137, 435–436 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137435a0
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