Original notes on Ambrym (286p.), 1914-1922

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Series 12000
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Box 123

Comprises: Correspondence with William Bowie (Santo), 1915-1917, and typescript and manuscript notes on Ambrym.

Subjects include: Social organisation, marriage and childbirth, property, land tenure, pigs, ancestral cult, taboo, mangge and other ceremonies, canoe making, weapons.

Bowie's letters comment on the manuscript and include anthropological information.

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