Australian National University Archives

Series481 - Charles Morris Woodford papers on the Solomon Islands and other Pacific countries
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Item249 - Folder entitled 'Discovery of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate', Typescript 31 pp, plus copy
Item250 - Folder entitled 'Notes on Malaita Shell money with a notice of the old Guadalcanal bead-money' includes: 'Notes on the manufacture of the Malaita shell bead money of the Solomon Group', Typescript, Woodford's note 'Copy', original sent to C H Read, 7 July 1907 ; Notes of interviews with Sio and Savo informants, December 1910 ; Notes on Malaita and Gela, Florida, etc money ; Notes on Auki Malaita money ; 'Appendix' on native currency
Item251 - 2 Folk lore stories' [of] Shortland Island by Miss Austen, Manuscript for two titles: 'Kakanimo' and 'Soli (an orphan)'
Item252 - Official reports on ships visiting the Australian Station, Solomon Islands: Report for New Guinea and Solomon Islands, 1890. Dates on which, and by whom, the various places on the Division were last visited by one of Her Majesty's ships, 3pp 2 copies ; and for the Australian Station, Solomon Islands, 1896. Correspondence respecting Outrages by Natives on British Subjects, and other matters which have been under inquiry during the year 1896, by Naval Officers in the Solomon Islands. 20pp. Proof copy
Item253 - Folder on Vanikoro Island.
Item254 - Dr Sarfert (for Museum fur Volkerkunde) to Woodford, Leipzig, 26 September 1911. Reference to Shackell's removal
Item255 - Woodford to Sidney Ray, Sussex, 12 June 1917, about Ray's article on Sikaina published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
Item256 - Smith, Percy S, 'Notes on the geographical knowledge of the Polynesians, Part I', Transactions of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol III, 1891, pp 280 - 310 and Part II, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, read before the Association, January 1898, pp 1 - 16. Reprints. Includes a letter from Percy Smith (President, Polynesian Society, New Plymouth, New Zealand) to Woodford 10 September 1916
Item257 - Folder entitled 'Historical Notes'.
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Reports

Folder on Vanikoro Island.