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New Caledonia Lists

Contains two lists: Women known to have had children in New Caledonia on December 12th, 1991; Men known to have fathered children in New Caledonia on December 12th, 1991.

Miscellaneous E.C.

Contains photostats and handwritten notes regarding shipping in the Pacific in the 19th century. English and French. The significance of "E.C." in the title is unclear.

Various Australian Dictionary of Biography research files

Material in English and some French, including photocopies, handwritten notes and one photographic print of the ruins of a fishing booth in Scotland connected to Andrew Cheyne. The material is all related to Australian Dictionary of Biography entries Shineberg was requested to write. Folder is title "Mendana research notes" but the relevance of the title is not clear.

"A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago" and other extracts and publications

Various photocopies of publications including Warwick M. Tompkins, Sr. and Captain Edmund French Clay ""Blackbirding" in New Guinea"; "A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago", author unknown; newspaper clippings regarding Captain John Strachan; Captain McKenzie "Observations on Making the Passage to the Eastward Through Torres Strait, and the Monsoons in the Timour (sic) Sea", The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, March 1847; "Trepang", Nautical magazine 1870; "Massacres at the Sandalwood Islands", Sydney Morning Herald, June 24, 1850; and more

ABC Talks, "Poisoned Reign"

Material relating to the Shineberg's work with the ABC reviewing the book on French nuclear testing "Poisoned Reign" by Bengt and Marie-Therese Danielsson, Penguin Books 1986. includes engagement contracts and copies of Shineberg's review.

South Sea Letters

Photostat copies of pages from various journals colelcted by Shineberg. Includes J. Williams, "Samoa to Enomanga"; Engacott "Cook Islands 1842"; George Turner, "New Hebrides 1842-43"; untitled journal

Sikaiana

Copies of pages of "Voyage of the Novara" including "Haunts of and Mode of Catching Trepang" and "Shocking Inhumanity of a British Captain".

Pidgin

Contains handwritten note "Early Pidgin - examples of, Beach La Mare, Langue de la Cote"; P. Muhlhausler, J A Bennett and D T Tryon, "Some English-based Pidgins in the Southwestern Pacific", booklet with no date.

Copies of two papers by Gunson

Two papers by Neil Gunson: "On Practical Genealogy", Canberra and District Historical Society, 1964; "Missionary Interest in British Expansion in the South Pacific in the Nineteenth Century" no date; reference list and map of Tahiti and Moorea, from The History of the Tahitian mission 1799-1830

Dillon

Photographs of pages from manuscript "Description of the Islands of Tanna and Erromanga, New Hebrides, When Visited by Captain Cook and Captain Dillon", from the copy in the Mitchell Library; copy of correspondence from Captain Dillon to the editor of the Bengal Hurkaru, Oct 14th 1826

Clifford book review

Shineberg's review of James Clifford "Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian world", Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1982

George Bennett

Photographs of pages of George Bennett's "A Recent Visit to Several of the Polynesian Islands", from The United States Journal; Shineberg's handwritten notes regarding Bennett's manuscript

Current Publications

Small file of research notes from Shineberg's books that were in at the time of the file. Includes dust cover of "The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841-1844"

ANU Press

Correspondence (some financial) between Shineberg and the ANU Press; report by Shineberg on "Robert Louis Stevenson and Samoa" by K S Mackenzie, requested by ANU Press; summary, list of illustrations and one photographic print from the "Voyages of Andrew Cheyne".

Barry McGowan photographic materials

  • AU ANUA 706
  • Series

This series has not yet been processed. A preliminary survey found materials relating to McGowan's early career, including photographic materials on New Caledonia and mining in regional Australia.

McGowan, Barry

Edward Freeman Paton Memorial Hospital collection

  • AU ANUA 602
  • Series
  • 1958 - 1976

Dr Edward (Ted) Freeman OAM served with his wife, Dorothy, as a medical missionary under the Presbyterian Board of Missions in the New Hebrides from 1963 - 1970. During this time he worked as a medical superintendent at the Paton Memorial Hospital, under difficult situations. He established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught family planning and supervised the training of many local and expatriate doctors and nurses while working in the New Hebrides. Collection includes correspondence, diaries, printed memorabilia, menus from the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, slides of the New Hebrides taken between 1963 - 1970 and slides of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) taken in 1963.

Freeman, Edward (Ted)

Sarah Walls, interviews with Jean-Marie Tjibaou

  • AU ANUA 271
  • Series
  • 1988-1989, 2007

Sarah Walls, a journalist who covered New Caledonia for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, conducted two interviews with Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou in the year before his assassination in 1989. Walls interviewed Tjibaou soon after the signing in June 1988 of the Matignon Accord, the peace plan for New Caledonia following the four-year conflict over independence. These interviews provide insights into Tjibaous's personal views on the peace plan, his hopes for the future of the Kanak people and his ideas relating to multiracial society 'one founded on recognition of Kanak sovereignty, and extending a welcome to those who came later'.

Walls, Sarah

James Tedder Solomon Islands papers

  • AU ANUA 445
  • Series
  • 1912 - 2005

Solomon Islands files collected and/or collated by subject by James Tedder. The files include the following subjects, bird life, census, national parks, the Moro Movement, land use and issues, the Solomon Islands museum, the Solomon Islands library, local government, education and broadcasting. Also includes two photograph albums on the Solomon Islands.

Tedder, James L O

Articles and reports on the Solomon Islands, particularly on birds and ecology, by various authors

Contains: Some Marching Rule Stories by Colin H. Allan (1974); Figures removed from a publication of foliage and flora. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club: Volume 85 No. 9 (Dec 1965), Volume 87 No. 8 (Nov 1967); Volume 92 No. 1 (Feb 1972); Volume 93 No. 2 (Jun 1973); Further Examples of Dual Singing by Southwest Pacific Birds by Jared M. Diamond (1972); An Unsuccessful Search for the Solomon Islands Crowned Pigeon by S. A. Parker (1971); Bird Records from West New Britain by Jared M. Diamond (1971); Biogeographic Kinetics: Estimation of Relaxation Times for Avifaunas of Southwest Pacific Islands by Jared M. Diamond (1972); Comparison of Faunal Equilibrium Turnover Rates on a Tropical Island and a Temperate Island by Jared M. Diamond (1971); Species-area Relation for Birds of the Solomon Archipelago by Jared M. Diamond and Ernst Mayr (1976); Distributional Ecology and Habits of Some Bougainville Birds (Solomon Islands) by Jarden M. Diamond (1975); The Laws of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in Force on 31st December 1969, Revised Edition: Chapter 89: Wild Birds Protection (1971); An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Economic Development of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate During the Period 1950-1964 by J. R. Baker (1967); Customs and Culture from Kazukuru: Folklore Obtained After the Discovery of the Shrine at Bao by A. H. Hall (1964); An issue of Corona (October 1952) featuring an article on The Shell Money of Auki Island by J. F. Bartle; Burial Customs and Grave Sites on Pre-Christian Nggatokae, Western Solomon Islands by Lindsay Wall and Rolf Kushel (1975); The Protection of Nature in the Islands of the Pacific by F. R. Fosberg (1954); Native Councils and Native Courts in the Solomon Islands by H. Ian Hogbin (1944); Bombs and Butter: The Revival of Ancient Irrigation Techniques for a Market Economy, A Pacific Example by M. J. T. Spriggs (1981); Choice of Residence in the Solomons and a Focal Land Model by D. G. Cochrane (1969); The Noona Dan Expedition 1961-1962 General Report and Lists of Stations by Torben Wolff (1966); Un Orgue Eolien de Guadalcanal by Hugo Zemp (1971); Summary Report on the International Seminar on the Cross- Cultural Study of Circulation, sponsored by the East-West Population Institute (1978); one issue of AGMANZ News: The Art Galleries & Museums Association of New Zealand (Feb 1971); Material Culture and Art in the Star Harbour Region, Eastern Solomon Islands, Southeast Solomon Islands Culture History Program- introduction by R. C. Green, by Sidney M. Mead, Royal Ontario Museum (1973); Field Notes on Birds of the Eastern Solomon Islands by A. J. Cain and I. C. J. Galbraith (1956) .

Reports and articles on Mugaba (Rennell Island) and Mungiki (Bellona Island) by various authors

Contains: On the Subsistence System of Bellona Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate: A preliminary report on a field investigation 1965 supported by "Styrelsen for teknisk samarbejde med Udviklingslandene" and "Statens almindelige Videnskabsfond" by Sofus Christiansen (1965); Crisis and Mass Conversion on Rennell Island in 1938 by Torben Monberg (1962); An Island Changes Its Religion: Some Social Implications of the Conversion to Christianity on Bellona Island by Torben Monberg; Determinants of Choice in Adoption and Fosterage on Bellona Island by Torben Monberg (1970); "We Don't Talk Much About Colour Here": A Study of Colour Semantics on Bellona Island by Rolf Kuschel and Torben Monberg (1974); The Silent Inventor: The Creation of a Sign Language by the Only Deaf-Mute on a Polynesian Island by Rolf Kuschel (1973); Songs of Bellona Island (Na Taungua o Mungiki) Volume 1: A new study on Polynesian music by Jane Mink Rossen; Some Aspects of Social Organization, Economy, and Values on Rennell Island (Mugaba), 1969: A Preliminary Report by Sofus Christensen and Torben Monberg (1970); The Mapping of Rennell and Bellona Islands by Sofus Christiansen (1968) and The Birds of Rennell Island by DIana Bradley and Torben Wolff (1956).

Articles and reports on the history of the Solomon Islands, by various authors

Contains: On the Cross-Cultural Study of Circulation by Murray Chapman (1978); Red Feather Money by William Davenport (1962); Preliminary Excavations on Santa Ana Island, Eastern Solomon Islands by William Davenport (1972); Anthropology in the British Solomon Islands by William H. Davenport (1968); Sexual Patterns and Their Regulation in a Society of the Southwest Pacific by William Davenport (1965); Social Structure of Santa Cruz Island by William Davenport (1964); The "Hawaiian Cultural Revolution": Some Political and Economic Considerations by William Davenport (1968); A Late Prehistoric Sequence from Su'ena Village, Uki by R. C. Green; Religion, Medicine, and Magic by C. E. Fox; A Late Prehistoric Settlement in Star Harbour by R. C. Green; Conclusion by R. C. Green; An Introduction to the Southeast Solomons Culture History Programme by R. C. Green; Rainforest Composition and Histories of Disturbance: inland settlement in Solomon Islands before European contact, a hitherto unrecognised control over floristics by Tim Bayliss- Smith, Edvard Hviding, and Tim Whitmore (2002, unpublished); The Last Initiation Ceremony at Gupuna, Santa Ana, Eastern Solomon Islands by S. M. Mead (1973) and a copy of a draft typescript of a work by Roger Keesing on The Maasina Rule ("Marching Rule") (undated).

Les Groube papers

Les Groube papers

  • AU ANUA 769
  • Series
  • 1938 - 2018

Groube, Leslie Montague

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