SISSANO.
Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia. Pp. [vi]+182(last blank), 9 charts (3 coloured, 7 folding, a couple with multiple images), index; roy. 8vo; dark green buckram, spine lettered in gilt, slightly marked; hinges reinforced with cloth tape, paper repair to central fold of penultimate chart, a little light foxing and soiling; The Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1916. First edition. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 244. *Ex library copy, with shelf number in white on spine, and a few other markings, including traces of bookplate or borrowing slip removed from title page and lower free endpaper, number stamp at foot of contents page, plus occasional blind stamps. A language-based study of Pacific migration-routes using evidence from the Sissano vocabulary of New Guinea. Item #099170
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