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14/06/2024 7:11 pm
This is a garden-variety Jaluit PPC cancelled at Jaluit on 14 October 1913. However, the text indicates that it was written in Bungi on 20 September 1913.
Anyone know where Bungi is? I haven't been able to find any Bungi in Micronesia. The most likely place I could find was the island of Bungi – now known as Ablingi Island – off the south coast of New Britain. That would have been D-NG at the time, but that would be an odd origin for an item mailed from Jaluit. I believe the sender was Helmut Fischer, who was an assistant plantation manager for the Neu-Guinea Compagnie, so that might make sense.
17/12/2024 2:51 pm
Jed, can you send me some higher resolution scans of the card? I want to ask Carsten and Peter. Thanks, Oliver PS I had no luck finding it either
06/02/2025 11:57 am
From a knowledgeable German collector:
I don't know of such an atoll in the Marshall Islands. I suspect that the sender has made a mistake here. “Bungi” refers to a certain necklace worn by the natives (see
https://onlinesammlung.freiburg.de/de/object/Halsschmuck/5BDF9B4C529F40D7B43703517EB30B33
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Halsschmuck | buni, vor 1900
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The sender will have picked up this name and thought that it was the name of the atoll he was visiting.
19/02/2025 2:34 pm
Jed,
The Expropriation Board of the civil administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea issued 3 maps accompanying the Sale of Expropriated German Properties ca. 1925 - 27. There were no sales in the Abllinghi/Gasmatta vicinity. See appended excerpts from the 3 maps.
19/02/2025 3:04 pm
Jed,
This might be a long shot. The Gilbertese (I-Kiribati) originally migrated from or are related to the Marshallese. The languages are related. I have scanned a couple of pages from a Gilbertese dictionary I used during my 2 sojourns on Kiribati. I have highlighted some words that would sound similar. The Gilbertese word "Bungae" is pronounced "Bung-eye' - close to Bungi.
Oliver Wyrtki reacted