Trobriand Islands DEP

Jerry W. Leach Collections:

Trobriand Myths and Tales

Trobriand Folklore Index
Collected by Jerry W. Leach on the Trobriand Islands 1970-71

This catalog of sound recordings made of indigenous folktelling includes six tales translated to English.

Download the PDF of Leach's Folklore Index

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The Universe of Massim Texts
2011 Massim/Trobriand Bibliography
Who's Who In Trobriand/Massim Texts. Includes Massim cultural area research overview and a chronology of published Trobriand visitors' works
Linguistic Materials
Introduction to Biga Boyowa (Darrah)
Vocabulary of Biga Boyowa (Baldwin)
Grammar of the Kiriwinia Dialect
(Rev. S.B. Fellows)
Dictionary of Kilivila (Hutchins)
Vocabulary (MacGregor)
English to Bowoyan (Twomey)
Languages of the Louisade Archipelago (Berde)
Trobriand Narratives
Introduction to Trobiand Oral Literature (Darrah)
Dokinikani: Cannibal Tales of the Wild Western Pacific with introduction by Linus S. Digm'Rina
Keibigibogwa: Bowoyan folktales
Oral Literature collection by Leach
Academic Texts
Trobriand Health and the Cosmetics of Cyclical Ontology
Traditional and Cultural Aspects of Trobriand Island Chiefs (Baldwin)
Ancestors in Trobriand Rituals (Darrah)
Is Beauty Skin Deep? The Ideology
of Trobriand Fatherhood (Darrah)
Khalu Valam Obweyowa:
Lamenting the Trobriand Heritage
(Digm'Rina)
An Electoral Miscarriage: Limited Preferential Voting and Cultural Interpretations in Papua New Guinea (Digm'Rina)
The Milamala and Falling Stars: Aspects of Religious Organization in the Trobriands (Herdt)

Symbols of Trobriand Kinship (Herdt)

Theses
The Trobriand Society (Montague)
Counting Coconuts: Patrol Reports from the Trobriand Islands Part 1: 1907-1934
(Connelly)
TUMA - The Trobriand Heaven: A Study Toward The Value of Traditional Trobriand Understanding of Tuma as Heaven (Ketobwau)
Field documents
Letters home: Correspondence
from the field to family and friends (MacCarthy)
Reports from the field (H.A. Powell)
- June-September 1950
- October-December 1950
- January-March 1951
Rev. S.B. Fellows collection: Diaries, manuscripts, primitive art collection and more (Ackerman)
Photo essays
War shields: Finding Meaning
in the Markings (Watters)
Bundles of Sorrow: Doba Transformations (Darrah/Raines)