In a German colony
In 1908 B. Pullen-Burry, an English traveler already known for two books on Jamaica, spent four weeks in New Britain, the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago in what was then German New Guinea. In a German Colony, published in 1909, describes the small administrative settlement, the copra plantations, the missions, the recruitment of island labor and the Melanesian villages she visited, and reports on the German methods of colonial government with a comparative eye. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, she takes an interest in customs, shell money and ceremonies, and she writes as one of the few European women to have seen the territory. Maps and photographs accompany the text. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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