[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Jesu-Christe deov ese-ifa-di-matalama : Fuyughe dialect.

BACHELIER, J. (translator)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Jesu-Christe deov ese-ifa-di-matalama : Fuyughe dialect.

At head of title: Asolon ur enambe, 2. Yule Island, Papua : Catholic Mission (printed at The Comet Press), 1953. Octavo (200 mm), original printed buff wrappers (sunned), stitch-bound; pp 38, [1 colophon], with numerous b/w line-drawn illustrations; title page with early ownership inscription ‘Fane, C.M. 26/9/63’, contents very clean. From The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne).

Illustrated episodes from the life of Christ, translated into the Fuyughe (Fuyug) dialect by Father Bachelier of the Sacred Heart Mission.

Fuyug is a language spoken in the Goilala district in Central Province. As of 2003 there were around 14,000 speakers of Fuyug.

Rare. No copies located in OCLC or on Trove.