Oceanian Section
Vol. XII / No. 3-4
By: D. Sutherland Davidson
The Pacific Area: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum
THE Pacific Ocean, which extends nine thousand miles east and west at the equator and eight thousand miles north and […]
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Vol. XII / No. 3-4
By: D. Sutherland Davidson
Preface: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Miss Jean Franckaen for the Cover Design of a Mortlock Island Mask, Micronesia. Mr. Reuben Goldberg for the Photographs. […]
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Vol. XI / No. 3
By: H. A. Weischhoff
III. Types of Money: Primitive Money
In enumerating the most important types of money which have had validity among primitive peoples, the following arrangement has been […]
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Vol. XI / No. 3
By: H. A. Weischhoff
II. Origin of Money: Primitive Money
The origin of money, like all problems of a similar nature, is a question which is invariably raised by scholars […]
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Vol. XI / No. 3
By: H. A. Weischhoff
I. What Is Money?: Primitive Money
In an age in which money has become the ultima ratio of human society and in which its function has […]
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Vol. VI / No. 1
By: E. A. G.
Easter Island Wood Carvings
IN proportion to its size of scarcely thirty-six square miles, Easter Island or Rapanui has provoked more discussions and has […]
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Vol. V / No. 5
By: H. U. Hall
Maori War Canoe Ornaments
THE Oceanian exhibition lately installed in the east wing of the Museum includes several fine examples of the prow and […]
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Vol. V / No. 4
By: Henry Usher Hall
Malagan of New Ireland
THE gallery lately devoted to a part of the African collections now contains, newly installed, a selection from those of […]
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Vol. V / No. 1
By: H. U. H.
A New Guinea Oracle
IN the coastal region of Geelvink Bay, in the north of Dutch New Guinea, the people practise a cult of […]
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Vol. II / No. 3
By: H. U. H.
A Wood-Carving from New Guinea
THE great island of New Guinea, to the north of Australia, is next in size to Greenland among the islands […]
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