. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. N'ew Guinea ! 'iiiag'fs. 5 f of tlieni cannibals ordinarily or on occjisioii, with Polvncsiaii clotted along the northern coast, and with dialecls as niaiu' as the ^^cs, small wooder that the arcltiteAnre seems fantastic and sidiject to n,o rule! Pile dwellings linilt out from the marshy shore, much as the lake dwellers of central Europe Iniilt six tlioiisand 3'ears ago; tree dwellings liigli np in the free growing trees of a tropical climate, a
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. N'ew Guinea ! 'iiiag'fs. 5 f of tlieni cannibals ordinarily or on occjisioii, with Polvncsiaii clotted along the northern coast, and with dialecls as niaiu' as the ^^cs, small wooder that the arcltiteAnre seems fantastic and sidiject to n,o rule! Pile dwellings linilt out from the marshy shore, much as the lake dwellers of central Europe Iniilt six tlioiisand 3'ears ago; tree dwellings liigli np in the free growing trees of a tropical climate, and. joc;. 44. X)':\v ouim-a ,lo between these extremes almost every light and flimsy pattern of ln)nse finilding, frcnn the lint hardly large cmnigh to shelter a single specimei) (.f the naked ])eople of the Papuan race, to the communal house sei'eral hundred feet long galliering beneath its liiigc roof people enougli to fill a good sized village^ as Kew flninea villages go. We could fdl a scrap book with pictures of the lii/arre slrnaures the exidcrer meets, bnl it would be only a scrap book, and we must be content with a tut and there seen nitieh as a l)ird nniy be supposed to sec houses in ra])id flight. Even if we knew all about the ways of conslniaion, the materials used and the necessities governing the final result, this would not be the place to enlarge the subject which might fill volumes. \\> can onJ)- glance here and there, witli the aid. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
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