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Bruce Biggs

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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

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by Ralph Bulmer

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Janet Holmes, Linguistics – Linguistics in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43838/bruce-biggs (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Janet Holmes, i tāngia i te 16 December 2013.