Interpretive Essays

• Essay 1: Introduction: Revisiting the Dutch and American New Guinea Expedition of 1926
  by Paul Michael Taylor
• Essay 2: Assembling, Assessing and Annotating the Source Materials for the Study of the 1926 Expedition by Paul Michael Taylor
• Essay 3: Western New Guinea: The Geographical and Ethnographic Context of the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition (With appendices of Matthew Stirling's unfinished Notes on the expedition, and "Materials for an Editor's Foreword" for his Journal) by Paul Michael Taylor
  • Appendix 1. Anonymous, untitled document. [List of reasons to publish the Journal.]
  • Appendix 2. "Material for Editor's Foreword" [anonymous draft]
  • Appendix 3. Untitled [Introductory material for Journal]. [Handwritten document by Matthew W. Stirling]
  • Appendix 4. Unpublished draft of speech to the 604th meeting of the Anthropological Society of Washington (March 17, 1927), by Matthew W. Stirling.