Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley & Meredith Osmond. The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, 1: Material culture. [Pacific Linguistics C-152]. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1998. xxi, 350 pp.

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Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley & Meredith Osmond. The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, 1: Material culture. [Pacific Linguistics C-152]. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1998. xxi, 350 pp.

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Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley & Meredith Osmond. The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, 1: Material culture. [Pacific Linguistics C-152]. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1998. xxi, 350 pp.