Author: NEVERMANN, HANS (1905-),
Title: Bei Sumpfmenschen und Köpfjägern. Reisen durch die unerforschten Inselwelt und die Südküste von Niederländisch-Neuguinea. [Sweite Auflage; Second edition].
Description: Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig, Union Dutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, [..], 1935. 8°. Original cloth, large line-drawing featuring a Papuan head on frontside, designed by P. Stadlinger.169pp. Captioned monochrome frontispiece, many captioned monochrome illusrations on 7 plates after field-photographs, featuring ethnic papuan types, primitive houses, woodcarvings, some captioned monochrome figures in text representing magic symbols and motifs, footnotes/references, double page sketch-map, monochrome pull-out track map at rear end, table of conents. German language investigative account of a voyage by this famous german scholar with anthropological and ethnographical observations of Merauke and its population, the Marind-Anim tribes, Frederic Hendrick Island, stone-age people and civilizsation, magic and sorcery, warfare.

Keywords: travel science research investigation newguinea irianjaya culture heritage merauke marindanim anthropology ethnology subsistence ethnicgroups culture heritage oceania melanesia