Missionaries - Melanesia
Photographs of landscapes, peoples, and communities of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Date: 1918-1928
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: PAColl-6056-10
Description: Photographs primarily taken in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu by unidentified photographers compiled by missionaries of the Melanesian Mission, 1918 to 1928. Shows landscapes, peoples and communities of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Some subjects are named and many photographs include inscriptions on verso. Photographs also feature scenes of missionary life in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Separated from album at Library reference PA1-o-2075.. Processing information: Desscription updated December 2023. Previous title: Photographs of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Melanesian Institute - Xavier Institute of Mission : Orientation Course papers
Date: Jun-Jul 1972
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1312
Description: Bound set of some 80 papers presented by various speakers: Section 1 The Anglican, Lutheran, United and Catholic churches in PNG and the Solomon Islands; Section 2 Melanesian pre-history, culture and indigenous religious and millenarian movements; Section 3 Theology, missions, morality, rites and training of catechists and pastors; urbanisation in Melanesia; Section 4 Liberation and development theology, developmental programmes, race relations, education, medicine, agriculture, land tenure and anthropological fieldwork Source of title - Transcribed from item The Mission Orientation Course was convened by the Melanesian Institute and Xavier Institute of Mission in 1972 at Alexishaven, Madang Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2009
Brown, George (Rev), 1835-1917 : Papers relating to Pacific Island culture and society
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.
Church of Melanesia : Selected archives
Date: 1863-1932
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1301
Description: Selected documents from the pre-1975 archives of the Church, held at the Solomon Islands National Archives. Include diaries of Dr Charles Fox (some re-filmed) 1950-1963 (gaps); papers and log books relating to the Mission ships 1866-1900 and its master J Jacob; envelope marked 'letters of Bishop J C Patteson'; Papers re wreck of Southern Cross IV 1932; Arosi folk tales by Dr C E Fox; illuminated scrapbook 1930; Melanesian Mission Medical Officer's annual reports 1930-1932. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-Coll-08-0550 for other diaries of Dr C E Fox Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2008
Portrait of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson
Date: 1860s
From: Thatcher, Frederick (Rev), 1814-1890 :Album of portraits of clerics and Maori
Reference: PA1-q-232-01-4
Description: Carte de visite portrait of John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, photographed by an unknown photographer some time between 1860 and 1869. Patteson was an Anglican cleryman who from 1855 was a missionary and bishop in Melanesia until his murder in 1871. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9 x 6 cm