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LEENHARDT, Maurice. Notes d'ethnologie Néo-Calédonienne. Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth. With 2 folding coloured maps, 36 plates (4 in colours) and 48 illustrations. VIII,340 pp. Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954), was a French pastor and ethnologist specialising in the Kanak people of New Caledonia. He spent more than 30 years of his life to the study of their culture. He was the founder of oceanic ethnology and established the Société des Oceanistes in 1927. [Boeknr.: 24359 ]