Author: BRUIJN, J.V. DE
Title: Het Verdwenen Volk. [Eerste druk/first edition]. Preface by Anthony van Kampen.
Description: Bussum, Unieboek/Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1978. Stout 8°., original cloth, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket. 372pp. Illustrated ti.-p. in black/white after a photograph, numerous black/white illustrations and plates after phtographs, double-page map of the dutch territory of New Guinea with legenda and distances in Km., maps on endpapers, table of contents. Dutch language description, by a former ethnographer and dutch colonial civil servant, posted at a provisional post at Lake Wissel, Central Mountain Range dutch territory of New Guinea, of daily life, customs and beliefs of so-called lost tribes of stone age Mountain Papuans. Fine copy, WITH dustjacket. (concise inscription in ms. in ink by previous owner at top margin of front endpaper map).

Keywords: newguinea territory mountains papuans tribes tribalism culture heritage stone age wisselmeren lake wissel experiences religion ethnology customs tradition belief religion paganism colonialism irian