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Journal Article

Authors: Gunson, Niel and Godschalk, Jan
Title: Manuscript XXVIII: an Early Ethnography of the Geelvink Bay People, West New Guinea
In: The Journal of Pacific History
Imprint: vol. 49, 2014, pp. 95-121
Subject: Chronological Classification 1788-1900 Human Sciences
Description: Translation from Dutch of the answers to a questionnaire from the German Anthropological Society, and completed probably in 1865 by Johann Gottlob Geissler, Gottlieb Jaesrich and Johannes Lodewijk van Hasselt.
Source: cohn 2014

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