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Bruce Biggs

Bruce Biggs

Linguist Bruce Biggs talks with children while undertaking field work at the village of Yaramanda in the Baiyer-Mul district of Papua New Guinea in 1959. Biggs was based at the University of Auckland and was among New Zealand's first academic linguists. 

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University of Auckland, Department of Anthropology, Anthropology Photographic Archive
Reference: 21471
Photograph by Ralph Bulmer

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Janet Holmes, 'Linguistics - Linguistics in New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/43838/bruce-biggs (accessed 24 April 2024)

Story by Janet Holmes, published 22 Oct 2014