Vala'a (Hula) people of PNG, language and geneology, various handwritten notes
Correspondence and notes regarding Motu lexicon, plus 24 pages of draft of Motu dictionary
Handwritten and typed family trees
Including a photocopy of 'Elmore Court, An Illustrated Survey of the Glouscestershire Home of Guise Family,' 17pp, various documents pertaining to the Guise family, correspondence with informants including Francis Guise, Kenneth Kelsey
Folder marked Motu Morality by Murray Groves containing texts by Groves: Motu Kinship Terminology, and photocopy of part of Motu Morality
Handwritten transcription of late 19th and early 20th century correspondence, 6pp.
Retrospective remarks on MacGregor by Joyce, 10pp, plus Joyce's CV and 4p document marked Joyce Thesis Appendix. Also contains printouts of 2 primary sources: Narrative of Expedition of the Australian Squadron of New Guinea, 1884; Thirteenth Voyage of Ellengowan, 1876.
Appendix to a draft of Simplified Motu to Police Motu prepared for a seminar of 22nd April, 1982
Case before the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea regarding owership of Era Taora, i.e.traditional land now in New Town, Port Moresby). 109 pages including extensive discussion of the history of the region and sovereignty.
Document from an unidentified thesis, paginated 3920419. Also includes Abstracts from the Tenth Pacific Science Congress, Hawai'I, 1961.
Draft, with handwritten annotations and notes, of a family history of Sir John Guise (first governer general of independent Papua New Guinea)
Report commissioned in response to land claim
Subtitled A Study of Social Change, 41pp., together with The New Religion, an extract from a larger work, likely by the same author, 29pp.
Two copies of a typescript translation of D'Albertis' account of 1885, together with a photocopy of the original Italian, plus correspondence of Oram re: D'Albertis.
Folder containing draft of Oram, The Western Motu and Koita Area and the European Impact: 1872-1942, related correspondence, handwritten notes and maps.
Papers and articles by Maddocks
Correspondence with Guise family members in PNG, maps of Guise land, and family trees
Notes and primary source copies regarding charges against Reginald Guise in 1885
Two texts by Groves: The Blending of Cultures, and Thesis Extracts, plus handdrawn map of Motu and Koita Villages, and an envelope labelled Motu Regalia containing clippings from the Papua and New Guinea Villager, vol. 8, no.2 (Feb 1957) 'Poreporena Initiation Regalia.'
Correspondence between Oram and Ivan Champion and Percy Chatterton regarding the history of Port Moresby. Note discussion of alleged ritual murder.
Oram's correspondence pertaining to his research on Reginald Edward Guise.
Genealogical material, including list of descendants of Sit Joh Guise (d.1865) and Biographical Index for Francis Guise
Draft paper with notes and related correspondence, and material about Hiri, the Motu name for trading voyages.
Photocopies of mostly 19th century newspapers, some with annotations, selected for relevance to PNG
Findings by Native Land Commission, in connection with a claim by Geita-Sebea for Badili Laurina Iduhu of Kila Kila Village
Photocopies of primary sources, plus correspondence.
Typescript of Lawes' Diary (Held in State Library of New South Wales) 10th January 1876 to 14th February 1884. Also contains 4 pages of Brief History of the Hulu by Oram.
Handwritten notes generated during archival research. Topics include the Log of the Queenslander 1880s, Papua Annual Reports 1880s-1940s, Rigo Annual Reports 1899-1930s, Patrol Reports 1910-1950s, and others.
2 photographs pasted on recto and verso of board inside plastic folder. Labelled Natives of Iraugaro - Singaugolo Tribe, and Dubu at Iraugaro.
Pertaining to Guise family research and the London Missionary Society. Photocopies of newspapers, typescripts of Report of the Fifth to Sixth Voyages of the Ellengowan, 1870s; On Board the Lizzie Jardine 1873.
Correspondence with H. W. Champion re: life in Port Moresby; The Role of the L.M.S. in Papuan History; Sermon Preached by the Rev. Percy Chatterton…to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Death of Dr. William Lawes.
Printed draft with extensive annotations, plus additional notes
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Village of Kalo at mouth of Kemp-Welch River, Hula, Marietimaga, Keapara, Port Moresby, Iraugaro, Sinaugolo, Rigo
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Tupuselei, Gaile, Kapa Kapa, Keakaro, Demori, Capt. Butterworth & Armed Native Constabulary, Rev James Chalmers.
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Miganigolo, Mr Shorts, Kemaia, Babaka, Velerupu Canoe, Stone Ovens of Gumoridobo, Kalo, Kapa Kapa,
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Mr. and Mrs. Short with Giro Paula, Mission Girls , tattooed Girl Kaite, Kalo village, Bula'a.
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention House-Boat Bulaa (1898), R.E. Guise, Kiwai, Rigo, Kapa Kapa, BNG Gov't Steamer 'Merrie England,' Velerupu sailing canoe.
Photographs possibly by Oram depicting village life and missions. Captions include Raula, Deacons, LMS School, Kopi Koke, my canoe, Rami Kapari, Dango 1965, Lae Yokea Settlement, Viriolo. Keapara.
Photographs and contact sheets depicting village life and canoes. Captions include Port Moresby, Tanobada, Tupuseli Marine Village, Tyrell, Western Motu, Pari village, Hamuabapa, Elevala village.
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Kopugolo, Babaka, Kapa Kapa, Seri Seri, Keakaro, Tattooing on Polynesian Girls, Perined Band on man.
Research notes, correspondence, and family trees pertaining to research on Guise family.
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Pari Villagers,Gaile, Keapare, Babaka, trading canoes. Includes photograph attributed to Nixon Westwood (b.1885) and A.C. English. Also contains handwritten note of Oram.
Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Gabone, Armed Native Constabulary, crocodile, war party, Siniva Samoan teacher's wife, Port Moresby, Mission Girls, Hula, Hula in Mr Short's time. 6 colour prints by another photographer.
Material towards a study of Reginald Edward Guise, including many letters from informants.
Notes made in response to queries from Oram regarding life in Port Moresby in the early 20th century
Material towards a study of Reginald Edward Guise, including many letters from informants.
Material from a folder labelled Guise, containing copies of primary soruces, correspondence, and an early typescript, with annotations, of Oram, Towards a Study of the London Missionary Society in Hula 1875-1968.
Various notes, correspondence, and photocopies from primary sources.
Hand drawn map and family tree of founding family, with duplicates.
55 pages by Oram
Printed draft with extensive annotations, plus additional notes and bibliography
Research notes, correspondence, and drafts of article.
Material pertaining to governance and reform in Port Moresby and New Guinea, including comparative material from East Africa, consisting of correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, reports.
Photocopies of late 19th c photographs and related correspondence.
Correspondence between Oram and Vaiburi Dairi of Port Moresby
Printouts of references for Guise study
Photographs and photocopies of imagery for research projects, esp. trading canoes and sea subjects
Printouts of references for Guise study
Photocopies of correspondence of the 1960s pertaining to Guise family
Copies and originals concerning the history of the London Missionary Society in PNG, last 19th to mid 20th century. Includes an index of Australian Newspaper references to PNG.
Material pertaining to Oram's book of the same name, e.g. press releases, reviews, clippings, correspondence re royalties.
Photographs of the construction of a trading canoe, possibly that used by Oram.
Printouts of email correspondence concerning research on the military career of Reginald Edward Guise
Photocopies, printouts of references, handwritten notes concerning Guise in PNG
4 photographs showing communities by the shore and boats
Correspondence and notes regarding photographs by A. C. English
Research materials and correspondence
Showing process, with many details, of building trading canoe, presumably that used by Oram
Copy of A.C. English, British New Guinea and Description of Lantern Slides, 1904, with handwritten notes on A.C. English photocraphs, and correspondence Re: Oram's collection
Research materials on land owned by R. E. Guise in PNG
Copies of missionary letters of 1871-1876, dealing with early efforts in PNG, with mentions of difficulties of the mission, death rites, and shipwrecks.
Several articles, including The Impact of the London Missionary Society on the Central District of Papua, a Talk Given at the Port Moresby United Church by Percy Chatterton, 1967, and copies of letters from the Ratotongan missionary, Piri, of 1878-1880.
Printouts, photocopies, and handwritten notes regarding patrol reports of Port Moresby
MA Thesis of John Mayo, University of Papua and New Guinea
Narrative of Kori Taboro (d.1950) transcribed by Sinaka Goava in 1946.
Letters of Luigi Maria D'Albertis during his stay on Yule Island 1875, translated by Rosemary Oram
a typescript by Paul Quinlivan on colonialism and ownership of land in New Guinea
Typescript of a paper submitted to the journal Pacific Studies, but not published under that name (if at all).
22 p. research paper, seemingly unpublished, with J. P. Sinclair handwritten at top.
Handwritten notes
Notes and papers on Motu and Koina customs and their legal application, including reference to specific cases. Includes working paper T.E. Barnett, The Application of the Native Customs (Recognition) Ordinance to Three Motu/Koita Family Cases
Correspondence chiefly concerning editing and publication of research paper 'Rabia Camp: a Port Moresby migrant settlement.' Correspondents include Nancy Hitchcock, R.G. Crocombe, Susan Faircloth, Tommy Kabu, Peter Lawrence.
Letter concerning Europeans in Port Moresby in the early 20th c.
Report on Port Moresby Area
Court case on Crown Resumption and Acquisition of Land
Copies of correspondence, c.1900, regarding West Granville Lands
Articles by Murray Groves
Notes, handwritten and typed, on Motu language, with wordlists.
Folder labelled Letter from JB & Port Moresby as Capital & Tommy Kabu, containing correspondence, academic articles, newspaper clipping.
Notes on Native Land Custom Port Moresby Region, by J.B.C. Bramell, Commissioner. Also contains notes and typescript on land acquisition in Port Moresby
Research paper by W.R. Stent, La Trobe University, and L. Roy Webb, Melbourne
Index cards with details of Guise Family landholding in PNG; Sedbergh School, a fundraising pamphlet.
Course syllabus of Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin
Lists of lands and villages compiled by Patrol Officer (possibly W.H. Morris), with geneological information
List of Motu names for various fish, birds and animals, together with geneological tables.
Large number of negatives, in strips and seperated. Most do not seem to correspond to prints elsewhere in the series. Some sleeves labelled 'Prehistory, La Trobe University.' Mostly undated, but one sheet is marked 1973.
Various slides of PNG, probably mostly by Oram in the Port Moresby and Hulu regions, but a few appear to be circa 1900, perhaps by A. C. English.
Photographs of people and places in PNG, probably mostly in Port Moresby and Motu regions. One photo of Nigel Oram. Likely dates 1063-1975.
Photographs of people and places in PNG, probably mostly in Port Moresby and Motu regions. Likely dates 1063-1975.
Geneological and biographical presentation on the Seaward/Oram family, chiefly focusing on Cyril Seaward, a New Zealand soldier in both world wars. A school assignment, probably of one of Rosemary's Oram's chidlren.