Robert W. Williamson With an Introduction by A. C. Haddon, Sc.D., F.R.S.

With Illustrations and Map Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin’s Street, London 1912

Preface

Contents

Plates

Illustrations in Text

Introduction

Introductory

Physique and Character

Physique.

Character and Temperament.

Dress and Ornament

Dress.

Physical Body Decoration, &c.

Ornaments.

Figure 1.

Daily Life and Matters Connected with It

Daily Life.

Food.

Cooking and Eating and Their Utensils.

Various Implements.

Figure 2.

Domestic Animals.

Etiquette.

Community, Clan, and Village Systems and Chieftainship

Communities, Clans, and Villages.

Figure 3.

Chiefs, Sub-Chiefs and Notables and Their Emone

Villages, Emone, Houses and Modes of Inter-Village Communication

Villages and Their Emone and Houses.

Figure 4.

Figure 5.

Figure 6.

Communications.

Government, Property, and Inheritance

Government and Justice.

Property and Inheritance.

The Big Feast

Figure 7.

Some other Ceremonies and Feasts

Ceremony on Birth.

Ceremony on Assumption of Perineal Band.

Ceremony on Admission to Emone.

Ceremony Conferring Right to Use Drum and Dance.

Ceremony on Devolution of Chieftainship

Ceremony on Building of a New Emone.

Matrimonial and Sexual

Killing, Cannibalism, and Warfare

Killing.

Cannibalism.

Warfare.

Hunting, Fishing and Agriculture

Hunting.

Fishing.

Agriculture.

Bark Cloth Making, Netting and Art.

Bark Cloth Making and Netting.

Bark Cloth Making.

Netting.

Figure 8.

Figure 9.

Figure 10.

Art, Design, etc.

Music and Singing, Dancing and Toys and Games

Music and Singing.

Dancing.

Toys and Games.

Counting, Currency and Trade

Counting.

Currency and Trade.

Language

Illness, Death, and Burial

Ailments and Remedies.

Death and Burial.

Death and Burial.

Religion and Superstitious Beliefs and Practices

Religion and Superstitions.

Sorcery.

Charms.

Omens.

General.

Taboo.

Note on the Kuni People

Conclusion

A Grammar of the Fuyuge Language

Phonology.

I. Alphabet.

II. Elision.

III. Vowel Changes.

Nouns.

I. Gender.

II. Number.

III. Case.

IV. Interrogative Nouns.

V. Demonstrative Nouns.

Adjectives.

II. Adjectives of Quality.

III. Demonstrative Adjectives.

IV. Interrogative Adjectives.

V. Indefinite Adjectives.

VI. Possessive Adjectives.

Numerals.

Pronouns.

I. Personal Pronouns. Simple.

II. Personal Pronouns. Compound.

III. Possessive Pronouns.

IV. Interrogative Pronouns.

V. Indefinite Pronouns.

VI. Relative Pronouns.

Verbs.

I. Conjugation.

II. The Particle, Ga.

III. Person and Number.

IV. Tense and Mode.

V. Negation.

VI. Interrogative.

VII. Substantive Verb.

VIII. Auxiliary Verbs.

IX. Verbal Suffixes.

X. Verbal Prefixes.

XI. Irregular Verbs.

XII. Notes on Some Verbs.

Adverbs.

II. Adverbs of Place.

III. Adverbs of Time.

IV. Adverbs of Quantity.

V. Adverbs of Affirmation, Negation and Interrogation.

VI. Adverbs of Manner and Likeness.

Prepositions and Postpositions.

I. Prepositions.

II. Postpositions.

III. List of Postpositions.

IV. Prepositional Phrases.

Conjunctions.

I. Copulative.

II. Adversative.

III. Sequence.

Interjections.

Notes on Dependent Clauses.

Note on the Afoa Language

Note on the Kovio Language.

A Comparative Vocabulary of the Fuyuge, Afoa, and Kovio Languages

Appendix V

Notes on the Papuan Languages spoken about the Head Waters of the St. Joseph River, Central Papua

I. Classification.

II. Comparison.

III. Papuan and Melanesian.

Plates

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Plate 2.

Plate 3.

Plate 4.

Plate 5.

Plate 6.

Plate 7.

Plate 8.

Plate 9.

Plate 10.

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Plate 12.

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