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440590
  • Title
    Arthur Francis Grimble - Gilbertese myths, legends and oral traditions
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PMB 69
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date
    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    440590
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 69
  • Physical Description
    ne microfilm reel 35 mm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
    Sir Arthur Grimble went to the Gilbert Islands as a cadet administrative officer in 1913 and became Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1926. He was transferred to the West Indies in 1932 and died in London on December 13, 1956. Grimble devoted much of his spare time in the Gilberts to collecting the myths, legends and oral traditions of the local people. Those recorded on this microfilm were collected between about 1916 and 1930
  • General note
    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 69
    Available for research
    Microfilm copy of original held by Department of Pacific History, The Australian National University, Canberra
    A list of the material recorded appears at the beginning of the microfilm
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