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

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Annotations to the Journal of Matthew Stirling

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August 4, 1926 bali bali [sic]

Sic, = balai-balai (Malay) “wooden or bamboo sleeping platform.”

 

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