GAP0107 Friedrichsen, De Gruyter & Co Hamburg 1936 31 cm. xvi, [ii], 386 pp. with 176 illustrations in the text, 10 plates (1 coloured). (Ergebnisse der Sudsee-Expedition 1908-1910, II, B, 7). Orig. wrappers. Fine, unopened and as issued. * A very detailed study of the sociology, religion and cults, law, medicine and writing, music and dance, customs, economy, clothing and ornaments, houses, boats, fishing and hunting, weapons and war, utensils and tools of the people on the Ponape, part of the Caroline Island. The study includes many texts in Ponapean with German translation. The island is today called Pohnpei, and is the largest of the four island states in the Federated States of Micronesia. The Caroline Islands were administered as a German colony from 1899-1914. $365.00AUD
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