Black, white & gold gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930
Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confron...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, Australia :
ANU Press
2016
2016. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427916506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Out of Cooktown
- 1, A meeting: north Queensland miners and Sudest Islanders
- The Islands
- 2. Sudest: from protection to competition then isolation
- 3. Misima: warlike and civilised
- 4. Woodlark: a people free to walk about
- Opening the Mainland
- 5. The Laloki: a beautiful country but a failure
- 6. The South-east: a few fine colours and malaria
- The Northern Rivers
- 7. The Mambare: natives of the fighting variety
- 8. New Ground: all golden country but very poor
- 9. The Yodda, Gira and Waria: unavoidable mishaps which constantly recur in warfare
- Sideshows
- 10. Milne Bay: nothing very exceptional
- 11. Keveri: a magnificent valley and an intense interest in killing
- The Lakekamu
- 12. Two ounces a day and dysentery: it grieves a man to lose one of them especially if he is a good boy
- 13. No meeting: a salute of skewers
- Edie Creek
- 14. On gold: a quiet whisper ... up on the Bulolo old shark-eye's getting gold.
