[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Pietate Bukana.

Selon le texte du R.P. Eschliman, par le Padre Paolo Coluccia M.S.C. 10-III-1946, corrigée par Ikupu Mini Angelus le VII-VIII-1946. [Yule Island, Territory of Papua : Catholic Mission, 1946]. [Book of Piety. Roro language]. Small quarto (255 x 208 mm), original plain card wrappers with red cloth backstrip, manuscript title to front: ‘Pietate Bukana / H. Eschliman / Riegler’; typed label along spine ‘Pietate Bukana. Eschliman, Riegler‘; stitch-bound, 101 pp, roneo printed on rectos only; contents clean and sound.

Roro is an Austronesian language spoken by three tribal groups on the New Guinea mainland and on Yule Island, to the immediate northwest of Port Moresby. This Catholic devotional book in Roro was compiled by missionaries of the Sacred Heart Mission on Yule Island. Established in July 1885, this was the first permanent Catholic mission British New Guinea.

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