Collecting pygmies: The 'Tapiro' and the British ornithologists' union expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 127-154

  Ballard, Chris ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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