Anthropology - Pacific Area

Date: 1968-1993

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1084

Description: Comprises microfilms of theses written by students studying for the Diploma in Divinity, and the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and the Master of Theology. The subject matter mainly concerns Christianity and the organization of churches of various denominations (but particularly Methodist) in the Pacific Islands, with a strong anthropological emphasis in describing the organization and customs of various Island communities. Language - Occasional theses in French Source of title - Transcribed The Pacific Theological College, situated in Suva, Fiji, is an ecumenical institution founded in 1966 to provide Pacific churches with a highly trained ministry. In 1987 it began a Master of Theology course in Pacific Church History. The thesis is an integral part of the College's Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology courses. Quantity: 33 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1996

Date: 1970-1975, 1980-2009

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1348

Description: Comprise 99 theses submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Theology, and other papers by staff and students of the College Source of title - Transcribed from collection Established in 1964. Although based at Banz, Western Highlands, its student body includes many from other parts of the Pacific area Quantity: 7 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1873-1880

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0513

Description: Clippings of articles by Kubary from Polish newspapers and journals, concerning the Caroline Islands, Samoa, Rarotonga, the Tokelaus, Ellice and Marshall Islands. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: [ca 1888-1926]

By: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-0060

Description: Papers relate to anthropological and philological researches of the Pacific. Also includes some genealogies, personal papers, unpublished drafts, literary papers, field notebooks and correspondence. Includes ethnographic notes from Fiji, Roviana, Tonga and elsewhere. Also includes literary drafts and Xerox copies of Hocart's photographs. Other - `A bibliography of A M Hocart, 1883-1939' / Rodney Needham. [Oxford, B Blackwell for the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, 1967] Relationship complexity - See Library catalogue for further A M Hocart material (PAColl-1914; qms-0963; MSX-5207; MS-Papers-1187-073; and Series-0241 in collection MS-Group-0677. Hocart was a British ethnologist who was involved in expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Rotuma, Wallis Island, Samoa and Tonga in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Quantity: 69 folder(s). 0.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, maps (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Indexes to notebooks available on request. Finding aids for photograph materials is available in the Photograph Archive backfile. Comprises listings of the photographs, and a copy of the "Heart of Fiji" guide to the exhibitoin of Hocart's photographs held at the National Library Gallery in 1993.. Processing information: This record was updated in March 2019 to highlight backfile guides to the materials.

Date: [between 1800 and 1806]

By: Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806

Reference: MS-Papers-0951

Description: Photocopy of an annotated pamphlet published by Francois Peron in 1800 in order to join the scientific expedition of Nicolas Baudin in the southern seas. One part of the pamphlet is a letter to the faculty of medicine in order to obtain its support. The pamphlet has been annotated by Michel Adanson, botanist (1727-1806). Accompanying material - Note describing content of item (in French) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (15 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annotations (photocopy) Processing information: Previously catalogued under Peron, Francois Auguste

Date: 1880-1894

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1044

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1993

Date: 2014-2020

By: Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Reference: ATL-Group-00169

Description: Preservation master copies of archives, manuscripts, photographs, and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands, as digitised by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. Not all files currently included in this set. For the complete collection, visit the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau website at http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Descriptive information supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. Earlier titles from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau are held by the Library on microfilm. See collection record at Micro-MS-Coll-08. Based at the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, or PAMBU, is a non-profit organisation sponsored by an international consortium of libraries specialising in Pacific research. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau copies archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands, with the aim of long-term preservation and access to the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands. The original documents are left with the owners or custodians. Between 1968 and 2014, the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau created microfilm copies of Pacific collections, which are described at Micro-MS-Coll-08. In 2014 the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau began creating digitised copies of Pacific collections, a portion of which are included in this finding aid. Quantity: 29400 electronic scan(s) preservation copies. Finding Aids: All titles are described in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau's catalogue, http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/..

Date: 1980 - 1999

By: Council for Māori and South Pacific Arts (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-POLYNESIAN-1980/1999

Description: Includes: ca 1980?: Council for Maori and South Pacific Arts. 110-116 Courtenay Place. PO Box 6040 Te Aro, Wellington [ca 1980?] 1992: Marshall Sahlins, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Sir Douglas Robb lectures 1992. "The anthropology of history in Polynesia". University of Auckland, 28 & 30 July, 4 & 6 August [1992] 1996: New Zealand National Maritime Museum. Waka Moana Symposium. "Voyages from the past to the future". Auckland, 18-24 March 1996. [Poster showing programme and guest speakers] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Screenprints and offset prints, sizes varying up to 450 mm.

Date: 1842-1917

By: Brown, George (Rev), 1835-1917

Reference: Micro-MS-0967

Description: Papers concerning Brown's life as a missionary in Oceania. Comprise missionary journals 1860-1871, 1874-1880, 1888-1890, 1897; letter books 1865-1880, 1886-1890, 1902-1909; miscellaneous volumes of correspondence and papers, including Tongan papers 1842, 1881-1892; letters from natives 1870-1916; scientific and ethnological papers 1877-1917; papers on Polnesian and Melanesian languages 1882-1895; Penisimani - Samoan stories collected and translated by Brown 1861-1870; notebooks, anthropological papers and correspondence; printed and manuscript copies of his autobiography; additional volume of letters 1872-1916; unattributed volume of South Seas reminiscences; photographs. Source of title - Supplied by Library The Rev George Brown served as a Methodist missionary in Samoa, the Bismarck Archipelago, Tonga and Fiji between 1860 and 1897, before returning to Australia. He was a keen natural historian, ethnologist and photographer. Quantity: 22 microfilm reel(s). 1 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: See http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/pacific_island_culture.

Date: [circa 1913-1954], [between 1928-1959]

From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Photographs relating to Reo and Eileen Fortune

By: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979

Reference: PAColl-5372

Description: The portrait prints are of Europeans taken circa 1913-1954, three being of a Mrs Hands. The lantern slides are scenes and portraits taken in Papua New Guinea, comprising photographs of Dobu Island, Tewera Island, Manus Island, and the Arapesh people, taken between 1928-1959. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 92 b&w original transparency/ies (lantern slides).

Date: 1972-1975

By: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: MS-Papers-10119

Description: Includes agendas, minutes, editor's reports, some financial records and correspondence and other papers Source of title - Supplied Barton was a Council member of the Polynesian Society in 1975. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1951-1961

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1335

Description: Comprise the journals of the first expedition (Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tahiti) 1951-1953; the second expedition (Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tikehau, Ra'ivavae, New Zealand, Australia, European ethnological museums) 1954-1955; the third expedition (Society Islands, Austral Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji) 1957-1958; the fourth expedition (Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti, Moorea, Hawaii, Fiji) 1959; the fifth expedition (Tahiti) 1960. Marshall describes the journals as a compromise between a personal diary and field notes. More detailed data was kept separately. Page numbers of his field notebooks are entered in square brackets for cross referencing purposes Source of title - Transcribed from collection Marshall undertook 12 expeditions to Polynesia between 1951 and 1989. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: The journals of the first to fifth expeditions are held at University of South Pacific, Cook Islands Campus. The remainder are at the Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu

Date: 1870-1881

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1043

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1993

Date: 1970

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-032

Description: Includes the Victoria University course programme in Anthropolgy and lecture notes on Maori subject matter Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1 Jan 1890 - 3 Jan 1891

By: Dack, Frederick, 1871-1947

Reference: MSX-9428

Description: Volume comprised of two separate works - a journal account and a photographic documentation. The first is a written account on 207 pages by the Ordinary Seaman Frederick Dack describing his naval experiences aboard the HMS 'Orlando' and the HMS 'Dart' in 1890-1891. The account commences on 1 January 1890 when Dack, who joined the crew of the HMS 'Orlando' at Sydney after travelling from England on the Orient Line's 'Iberia' the previous year, describes both life on board and on shore at Sydney. Departing from Sydney on 6 January, the account goes on to describe the sighting of Stewart Island and entering Milford Sound on 11 January, arrival at Port Chalmers on 12 January and at Akaroa the following day. The voyage continues to Lyttelton Harbour on 16 January, Wellington Harbour 21 January, White Island on 25 January and Auckland the following day. Preparation and participation in the Auckland Anniversary Regatta is described. The expedition departs from Auckland on 18 February and after calling at Russell in the Bay of Island, heads for Tasmania, arriving at Hobart on 25 February, and from there to Melbourne via Bass Strait on 15 March. Dack served on the HMS 'Orlando' until 8 May 1890 when he joined the crew of the survey ship HMS 'Dart' and left Australia for the Pacific on 22 May 1890. The journal then gives an account of visits to a number of Pacific Islands and closes with a final entry dated 3 January 1891 after the ship has returned to Sydney. The second, commencing backwards from the lower boards of the volume is a photographic work created by the hydrographic surveyor Lieutenant Boyle Somerville aboard the HMS 'Dart'. Photographs depict shipboard life aboard the HMS 'Dart' as well as capturing views and scenes from the lives of the local peoples of Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Norfolk Island, and other Pacific Islands. Also includes a portrait of Victor Doucere and four portraits of unidentified Māori women. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, holograph, printed matter and photographic prints. Volume half-bound in black leather with marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers, 183 leaves of ruled unwatermarked laid paper, 24 x 18 cm; includes 139 photographic prints mounted on 81 pages, with 79 blank pages between the two sections of the volume.

Date: 1845-2011

By: Polynesian Society

Reference: MS-Group-0677

Description: These records comprise administrative records of the Society, including secretary's correspondence and editorial papers, and material collected by the Society relating to ethnological matters. This collected material includes a large and rich body of ethnological manuscript material collected as part of the Society's library. Also included are deposited papers of Stephenson Percy Smith, the founder and early leading figure in the Society, although, because of his all-encompassing activities, all the early papers reflect his work. Also included are the editorial papers of the New Zealand Institute, dating from the period when Johannes Andersen was active in both organisations. See series descriptions for further information. Relationship complexity - See also collection 75-152 The Polynesian Society was formed in 1892 to `rescue from oblivion the fast-fading knowledge of the past among the natives of New Zealand and the South Seas'. Quantity: 13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts, and printed matter. Transfers: Note that MS-Group-0031 (Arthur Samuel Atkinson, Maori letters from Taranaki) was originally part of this group. It was separated out and described separately, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, because of its particular te reo and historical significance. These papers are also on long term loan and have been digitised.. Processing information: Group currently being reprocessed. This group incorporates the old MS-Papers-1187 collection and a later accession of Polynesian Society records.All items retain their earlier identifiers.

Date: 1879-1904

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Tylor, Edward Burnett (Sir), 1832-1917

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2803

Description: Comprises selected correspondence with other anthropologists, missionaries and informants, concerning Australian, Pacific and New Zealand anthropology Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1993

Date: 1929-1974

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Blackwood, Beatrice, 1889-1975

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2806-2819

Description: Comprises selected diaries, notes and correspondence relating to her research in the Solomon Islands, and in Australia and the Pacific generally Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 13 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1993

Date: 1888-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Pitt Rivers Museum

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2804-2805

Description: Selected papers from various miscellaneous collections relating to anthropology in the Pacific area Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1993

Date: 1880-1939

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Haddon, Alfred Cort, - 1855-1940

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2728-2759

Description: Selected records from the papers of A C Haddon, in the main relevant to New Guinea, Torres Straits, Melanesia and Polynesia, including New Zealand Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 31 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1993