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Title:

First contact [videorecording] / produced and directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson in association with Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Filmakers Library,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Ethnology--New Guinea.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Ethnology--New Guinea.
Primitive societies--First contact with Europeans.
DVD-Video discs.
New Guinea--Social life and customs

Other Authors:

Connolly, Bob.
Anderson, Robin.
Oxenburgh, Richard.
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies.
Filmakers Library, inc.
Arundel Productions.

Notes:

Intended audience: Ages 16 through adults. Issued also as motion picture.

Summary:

Recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58972789

Locations:

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)