Fly River

Date: 1974-1975

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1217

Description: Legends in the vernacular languages from Western District villages, with English translations and illustrations. Language - Written in the various vernacular languages of the Western District villages of Awim, Bine, Faiwol, Gogodala, Kiwai, Suki, Yongom and Zimakani. Source of title - Transcribed from item The initiative for this booklet came from Papua New Guinea tertiary students at the 1974 Camp Sirinumu Vernacular Literacy Course. Volunteer students fro Daru High School spent their 1974 Christmas holiday collecting material from interviews with their elders in their respective villages. Br Philip Guimont of Daru Montfort Catholic Mission encouraged the project. Doris Bjorkman and Ramona Lucht of the Summer Institute of Linguistics corrected and edited the transcripts and made the translations. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2004, PMB

Date: 1956-1972

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Pullen, Royal, 1925-

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1232

Description: Mr Pullen wrote regular letters to his wife which are detailed, observant and witty. Mr Pullen's letters clearly convey his impressions of the country and the people as well as giving a clear account of his botanical survey practices. During the 1950s and 1960s the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) was investigating resources in Papua New Guinea on a broad scale using both air photography and checking "ground truth". Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchlong.php. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2005

Date: 1876

By: London Missionary Society

Reference: qMS-1160

Description: Reports by S Macfarlane and W G Lawes of the LMS in Papua New Guinea, of voyages in SS `Ellengowan'; exploration of the Fly River; voyage from Port Moresby to China Straits Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (29 cm; brown buckram) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, University of Papua New Guinea Library, 1975

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-144857-F

Description: Two unidentified men wearing upper body adornments photographed at Fly River, Papua New Guinea, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative