"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

Interpretive Essays

Browse Photos and Film

Expedition Source Material

About this Project

expedition source material

Annotations to the Journal of Stanley Hedberg

Date of Note/View Entry Keyword(s) Note

June 21, 1926 bivauc

Hedberg incorrectly spells bivouac as “bivauc” throughout. This French (and English) word for “encampment in the open” is still frequently used in western New Guinea in the form bifak, from Dutch bivak. It is not marked with a “[sic]” in the text.

 

CreditsPermissionsMore Expeditions & Voyages