Anthropology - New Guinea

Date: 1928-1934

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1197

Description: General record books, notes on customs, barter and weapons, notes on legends and folklore 1927-1930; diaries and patrol notes 1932-1935; anthropology course notes and essays, 1929-1931; New Guinea notes and article, 1927-1940; correspondence, 1926-1934. Also, Patrol File 1 (Coast road, aitape-Wewak, 1928-1932; File 2 (Inland Sissano); File 3 (Aitape Inland, 1928-1931); File 6 (Inland Yakamal, 1931-1932); File 8 (Wewak West, 1933-1934); File 9 (Wewak east, 1933); File 10 (Maps and route maps, further patrol reports and related documents, 1927-1934); Vanimo Village Book, May 1930; Boik vocabulary; wedding album and photograph. Source of title - Transcribed Thomas served as Patrol Officerm ainly in the Sepik District from 1928 to 1934, when he married. He also took courses in anthropology between 1929 and 1931. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2003

Date: 1958-1963

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1202

Description: Data sheets Nos 1-234, documenting transfers of Chimbu stone tools; include date, location, donor, description and its uses, in German, pidgin and English, as well as including photographs of atrefacts and donors. Source of title - Transcribed from item. Ottmar Maier, while working as a lay missionary and builder for the Divine Word Mission in Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, collected, under the guidance of Fr Heinrich Aufnenager SVD (later to become Professor of cultural Anthropology in Japan), some 234 stone tools, which he documented in detail. The collection was eventually sold to the Stadtische Museum fur Volkerkunde on Frankfurt. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Pur4chase, PMB, 2004

Date: 1865-1981

By: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979

Reference: MS-Group-0923

Description: This collection comprises the private and family papers of the New Zealand anthropologist Dr Reo Fortune. Includes manuscripts, photographs, maps and research notes, mainly on his main research areas in New Guinea, although there is also material on Burmese tribal groups, Yao society in China and on the Omaha Indians of North America. Fortune's second wife, Eileen Fortune (nee Pope), a copious letter writer, kept detailed diaries, and her papers form a large part of the collection. Fortune was previously married to Margaret Mead (8 Oct 1928, in Auckland) 1928-1935. Also includes books, many heavily annotated, offprints of articles and other printed material. Much of the material in this collection has been recorded by Fortune in the indigenous languages and dialects of the peoples he was researching. Languages include New Guinean Papuan languages, Chinese, Burmese and the language of the Omaha Indians. Other - Further correspondence between Reo Fortune and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is held by the American Philosopical Society, Philadelphia, USA (Gajdusek Papers, B G13j) Accompanying material - Biographical information held in backfile Arrangement: The original box listings have been subdivided into 16 series. Dr Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist, received his Masters Degree in Mental and Moral Philosophy from Victoria University College, Wellington; received his Doctorate Degree from Columbia University, USA. Noted as one of the pioneers of social anthropology in Melanesia, Fortune made siginificant contributions in the field of research regarding the Islanders of Papua New Guinea, Omaha Indians of North America, Yao Society in China and the Chin peoples of Burma. Lectured in anthropology at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, England from 1947 until retirement in 1970. Quantity: 456 folder(s). 69 volume(s). 3 Hollinger boxes. 9 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, plans, photos Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available for original accessions. Provenance: After the death of Reo Fortune in Cambridge, England, Dr Ralph Bulmer collected some 22 boxes of papers from Fortune's house, which he listed roughly and transferred to Mrs B A Mclean, Reo Fortune's daughter and trustee of his estate. Later, another two boxes of papers which had been held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, were transferred to Mrs Mclean, who donated both collections to the Alexander Turnbull Library. In 2014 a box of further papers were donated to the Library by Mrs McLean. Transfers: Collection as whole taken into manuscripts, transfer made from here - To Cartographic Collection - Maps and plans of New Guinea and Melanesia 29/01/04 and 20/07/05 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 9 sketches, 1 architectural plan, 1 rock chip with deposit (curio) 20/07/05 - To Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00254. Processing information: Archivists notes - Major enhancement of the descriptive records, as well as inclusion of descriptions for Series and individual item records, undertaken by Manuscripts and Archives staff in 2005. Accessions 80-171 and 80-323 have been combined into the collection MS-Group-0923

Date: 1952-1962

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1218

Description: Comprise appointment and appeals documents 1954-1962; patrol reports and anthropological data for Madang, Morobe, Eastern Highlands and Milne Bay Districts 1952-1964; paper by Peter Lawrence `Cargo cult and religious belief among the Garia'; paper by Ross Johnson on the history of the Madang District; papers from the District Court at Samarai, depositions and related documents re case of E R Johnson and A C Ritchie, charged with conspiring to defeat course of justice, 1968; photographs of Madang-Gusap road buiding; patrol from Bogadjim to Dumpu; Bam Island Rehabilitation Project. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004

Date: 1922-1963

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1164

Description: Comprise papers on mission education in Melanesia; papers on education in Papua New Guinea, both pre- and post-World War II; papers on education in Nauru; papers on the South Pacific Commission, the Honolulu Conference 1936; correspondence, miscellaneous papers, and photographs. Source of title - Supplied Groves was a Supervisor of Education in New Guinea 1922-1926, Director of Education in Nauru 1931-1936 and Advisor on Education in the Solomons 1939-1940, and Director of Education in Papua New Guinea ca 1945-1958. He was also involved in Melanesian anthropolgy during the 1930s. Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available Guide to the papers included in Reel 1.. Provenance: After his death Groves' papers were transferred to the University of Papua New Guinea and catalogued in 1972 by John A Collier.

Date: 1932-1966

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1188

Description: Comprises: an Ethnographic study of Fisoa, a New Ireland community [in 1932], compiled at ANU, Canberra in 1965; Kinship and social organisation in a New Ireland community, compiled at ANU, Canberra, in 1965-1966; A South Seas panorama, being mainly previously published papers intended for publication as a book. Source of title - Transcribed In 1932 Groves carried out ethnographic field work at the village of Fisoa on New Ireland in New Guinea, part of the administrative district centred on Kavieng. His work was supported by a grant from the Australian National Research Council and reports were published in Oceania and Mankind. Following a career as an educator, Groves was Visiting Fellow in Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University 1965-1966, where he compiled the papers copied. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2002

Date: [ca 1930-1945]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1031

Description: Comprises translations, grammars and vocabularies in Kiriwinian, Boyowan and Motu. Also, some autibiographical notes, observations on the missionaries on Woodlark Island, and on the Papuan natives. These Notes from Milne Bay were written in pencil and are now faded. Source of title - Transcribed Fr Baldwin served in Eastern Papua as a missionary for 20 years, from 1933, setting up mission stations in the Trobiands and Milne Bay, and contributing to the islands of Sideia and Basilaki. He made a special study of the Trobiand Islands languages. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1990

Date: 1873-1907

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1042

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

Date: 1930-1972

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1353

Description: Files on the general administration of the Society and on SVD history in Papua New Guinea. The records include the papers of Fr Henry Aufenanger SVD documenting his anthropological interests and work with the Gende people on the Bismarck Mountains, and copies of letters from Fr Josef Erdweg to the founder, Fr Arnold Janssen Source of title - Transcribed from collection Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1978-2000

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1186

Description: Writings on the indigenous society around the Madang area, with most of the material taken from interviews. The articles have been published in the periodical `Oral History'. Also, her thesis ` Sailing for survival. a comparative report of the trading system and trading canoes of the Motu people in the Port Moresby area and the Bel people in the Madang area of Papua New Guinea'. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2002

Date: 1929-1931, 1936-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2817

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1845-1996

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1160

Description: Papers on the history of the Catholic missions in Papua New Guinea and other parts of Melanesia. Comprise articles, papers, diaries and notebooks of Fr Tschauder 1937-1946, and his correspondence 1937-1954. Also, collected personal papers and manuscripts of other Catholic missionaries and subject files on the Society of the Divine Word missions in New Guinea and in Melanesia. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 15 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: As well as his own writings, Fr Tschauder collected personal papers and manuscripts of other missionaries while teaching at the Divine Word University. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2001

Date: 1936-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2815

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1887-1929, 1883-1914

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Haddon, Alfred Cort, - 1855-1940

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0959

Description: A selection of Haddon's papers, relating to Papua and New Guinea. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1987. [ca 1990s], 1996, 1998, 2001, 2009

From: Wright, Douglas James, 1956-2018: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12953-4

Description: Comprises published books kept by Douglas Wright. Includes: - Volumes by Patti Smith including "Ha! Ha! Houdini!", inscribed "To Douglas, with all good wishes, Patti Smith, Auckland '98" and also includes letter from Patti Hudson to Douglas Wright (1998) and a newspaper clipping (circa 1990s); "Seventh Heaven"; "Witt"; "Auguries of Innocence; and "Banga"; - Volumes by Janet Frame including "To the Is-Land", inscribed "For Douglas, for Christmas… from Janet, Dec 1996"; and "Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography", inscribed "For Douglas, with many thanks for the visit… from Janet, Nov 8 2001"; - Volume by Paul Taylor, "Private Domain: An Autobiography", inscribed "For my Dougie, with love, Paul"; - Volumes by Tobias Schneebaum including "Keep the River on Your Right", inscribed "To my darling Douglas, who knows how to find the right river, with much love Tobias"; "Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea", inscribed "To Douglas Wright, as always, with love, and with thanks for bringing me into a new work. Tobias, Christmas, 1987"; and "Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea", inscribed by David Bergman, 2009. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 box(es) contains 11 books.

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