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Biography: Biggs, Bruce Grandison

Bruce Biggs in Papua New Guinea

Bruce Biggs in Papua New Guinea

Linguist Bruce Biggs talks with children while undertaking fieldwork at the village of Yaramanda in the Mul-Baiyer district of Papua New Guinea in 1959.

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University of Auckland, Department of Anthropology, Anthropology Photographic Archive

Reference: 21471

by Ralph Bulmer

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Andrew Pawley. 'Biggs, Bruce Grandison', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47149/bruce-biggs-in-papua-new-guinea (accessed 14 June 2026).