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The collection was made by James Sinclair in 1973 -1974 from files held by TPNG District Administration, Konedobu. It includes patrol reports, station journals and district annual reports (including selected memoranda), together with various other reports, reviews and studies with detailed indexes compiled by Bob Cole listing patrol number and date, patrol officer and area patrolled, photocopies and some original documents held in binders, departmental correspondence and reports and manuscripts and publications, collected by James Sinclair, together with some Department of District Administration confidential files, and Sinclair’s notes on various archives and secondary sources.

Includes documents given to James Sinclair by Sir John Gunther, J.K. McCarthy, Robert Cole and the family of Sir Donald Cleland.

The email and electronic documents relate to Templeman’s role as head of Pandanus Books which published fiction, poetry, memoir and non-fiction works relating to Asia and the Pacific.

Series includes illustrations by Barwick for papers with Ken Campbell and other academics, drafts of papers, photographs of specimens and graphic design work by Barwick. Much of the material focuses on lungfish/dipnoan fish.

Personal and political papers of Sir Cyril (Lenox) Hewitt. Includes parliamentary correspondence, minutes, reports and notes; Department of the Treasury papers; Australia House correspondence and photographs; Prices Commission papers; Geneva General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Conference papers and photographs; Whitlam Government Loans Affair papers and correspondence; Department of Minerals and Energy papers and correspondence; Correspondence relating to Hewitt's role as Chair of Qantas; work diaries; photographs.

This series has not yet been processed.

Two articles written to celebrate 50 years of computing at the Australian National University.

164 photographic prints, slides, and negatives of people and places related to Papua New Guinea. Many were taken by the Information & Extension Services, Administration of Papua & New Guinea or Department of External Territories, Canberra.

This series has not yet been processed.

Correspondence, reports, press cuttings, research materials, contracts and employment documents, lecture notes and student essays, conference programs, manuscripts and publications, and interview tapes. Also includes records related to the Tongan History Association.

Includes undergraduate course outlines, assessment exercises and notes for Political Science, History, Philosophy and Psychology subjects taught at ANU and Queensland University.

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This series contains vocabularies, dictionaries and grammars of the languages of the area in which Twomey worked.

Contains 77 mainly colour slide transparencies, many taken by Bob Cooper, of the campus and also copies of older photographs of ceremonies and events as background information for an introductory training course in the Administrative Development Program.

Many of the files relate to the Library Committee, including minutes, agenda and working papers from 1960 to 1987. There are also files about significant events, ‘Library Archives’ and ‘Library History’ files, and files about the Asian Studies Division of the library. Single numbers have been imposed because many files bear the same alphanumeric number.

Many of the files relate to the Library Committee, including minutes, agenda and working papers as well as other administrative matters.

This was the main ANU correspondence file series from 1950 to 2000, usually known as ‘Central Files’. It contains some earlier material top-numbered from the first ANU file series (ANUA 18) as well as many files of the Canberra University College (ANUA 42) from 1930 to 1960. These files were incorporated in the series by the former Registrar of the Canberra University College Thomas Owen. The files were originally controlled by a card index and file register – the information contained in these was transferred to a computerised keyword index in 1975 and in 2006 to the current Central Records System. The multiple numbers consist of a primary subject often representing a Research School, Faculty or other organisational unit, a secondary number representing a function and then the next sequential number allocated to a particular file. The primary numbers (not all have extant files) are:

1. Vice-Chancellor’s correspondence
2. Legislation and policy
3. Council and Committees
4. Administrative matters (including staff organisation)
5. Scholars and scholarships
6. Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies
7. John Curtin School of Medical Research
8. Research School of Physical Sciences
9. Research School of Social Sciences
10. Visitors, visits, conferences and seminars
11. Library
12. Buildings
13. Research School of Chemistry
14. Other organisations (including Canberra University College 14.1.0)
15. Staff activities
16. University House
17. Research students
18. Ceremonies and historic occasions
19. Joint ventures (Institute and School)
20. School of General Studies (see also 30–44)
21. Research School of Biological Sciences
22. Research School of Earth Sciences
23. Management Services Group
24. Research School of Mechanical Sciences (proposed)
25. Health research
26. Centre for Resource and Environment Studies
27. Humanities Research Centre
28. Office for Research in Academic Methods
29. Social Psychiatry Research Unit
30. School of General Studies – scholarships
31. School of General Studies – Faculty of Arts
32. School of General Studies – proposed faculties
33. School of General Studies – Faculty of Economics
34. School of General Studies – Faculty of Asian Studies
35. School of General Studies – Faculty of Law
36. School of General Studies – student matters
37. School of General Studies – business matters
38. School of General Studies – halls of residence
39. School of General Studies – committees and boards
40. School of General Studies – research grants
41. School of General Studies – curriculum
42. School of General Studies – staffing
43. School of General Studies – general
44. School of General Studies – Faculty of Science
45. Freedom of Information
46. – 49. Not used
47. Triennial planning
48. Policy studies
49. Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
50. Institute of the Arts
51. Faculty of Medicine (proposed)
    Many personnel files were raised in this series either under the general ‘4.2 Staff appointments’ or under the secondary ‘staff’ function of particular organisational units. These files are controlled in a separate series of staff files (ANUA 19) from several different series. This series was superseded by an annual single number series in 2000 (ANUA 239).

This is the main correspondence file series of the University so deals with many topics relating to administration, research, teaching and learning, student progress and student services. It replaced the former multiple number series (ANUA 53).

Annotated articles and correspondence collected by Campbell. Topics include dipnoan fishes (lungfish), the evolution of cranial features and different classifications of organisms.

This 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.

This series is not processed yet.

Images are of Banaba (Ocean Island) in the Pacific near Kiribati. They show island scenes and views of the phosphate mining that occurred on Banaba.

This is a scrap book containing newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents about the 1978 expedition to the Himalayas during which members climbed Mt Dunagiri.

Papers documenting Graeme Snooks' research into Humes Limited and his correspondence with Noel Butlin.

Includes teaching material regarding vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology, and Stratigraphy mainly focused on Australia. Teaching material is mainly lecture notes and overhead projector slides of diagrams, with some example of laboratory practical and tutorial questions. Includes some information regarding fieldwork trips to Kioloa. Examples used for teaching include historical and current species of lungfish.

The files relate to Professor Reid's research and teaching in Southeast Asian Studies principally at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University including material about departmental reviews and publications, correspondence with fellow academics, and engagement with Southeast Asia through the Australian Development Assistance Agency, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and other organisations.

The collection has a strong emphasis on Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, but includes other countries - Thailand, Cambodia, China and Africa. Photographs of people, family groups, villages with some place names - Goilala, Baruni, Eastern Highlands, Kimbe, Yuli. Some material includes data from the Hagahai people of Papua New Guinea.

This collection relates primarily to Dr Price’s work in the Department of Demography from 1952 to 1985. It includes correspondence files, research files, statistical compilations, computer printouts, index cards to research materials, press cuttings, publications and copies of lectures and articles. There are files relating to Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs projects and to Price’s membership of the National Population Council, the Immigration Advisory Council, the Good Neighbour Council ACT, the Australian Council of Churches’ Refugee Advisory Council, and the Burgmann College Council, and some departmental administrative files.

This series consists of personal accounts of the University’s activities, developments and achievements. from members of the ANU Emeritus Faculty.

Contents consist of files arranged chronologically relating to Dr Margaret Steven's early education, employment, university administration and research work. It includes correspondence relating to publications and exhibitions that Margaret Steven worked on including entries for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the 'Great Australians' series, and publications on Merchant Campbell. Box 1 contents date from 1945 - 1998; box 2 contents date from 1996 - 2014. Testamurs for her Honours degree and Doctorate are included in box 2.

Contains anthropological research papers relating to four Papua New Guinea projects.

1. Records of the Milne Bay Oil Palm social impact study are
   fieldwork papers (items 1-12),
   consultancy report papers (items 13-18),
   related technical reports (items 19-31, including audio cassettes 28, 30)
   a map (item 32), and
   other correspondence (items 33-35).

2. Records of the Wapolu Gold Mine, Fergusson Island : Socio-Economic Impact Study (SEIS) are
   fieldword papers (items 36-59)
   consultancy report papers (items 60-63)
   reference notes and reports (items 64-77)
   cassette recordings (items 78-88)
   colour kodachrome slides (items 89-148)
   colour prints (items 149-172)

3. Records of the Woodlark (Muyuw) Island are
   forestry study (items 173-182)
   Kodachrome colour slides (items 182-246)

4. Records of South Normanby Island
   fieldwork papers (items 247-267)
   maps (items 268-270)
   colour kodachrome slides (items 271-370)
   cassette recordings (items 371-372)

The collection consists of research works and papers by Shineberg; files of general research material arranged by subject including Andrew Cheyne's Trading Voyages, cargo cults, decolonisation, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati/Gilbert Islands, pacific labour trade, Marquesas Islands, Micronesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides); undergraduate teaching resources and lectures; correspondence (including with Bronwen Douglas), photographs, computer disks, microfilm prints, material related to Shineberg's career, copies of archival material dating from the 18th century, card indexes and miscellaneous reprints.

Contains files relating to publications and films the Division of Pacific and Asian History were involved with, theses and monograph series, correspondence, bibliographies, newspaper clippings, and material relating to the film Angels of War.

Pacific and Asian History Library materials including governmental reports from Tonga, Western Samoa, Guam, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, New Zealand, East Timor and micronesia; parliamentary papers, proceedings, publications, printed material relating to Papua New Guinea.

Files created by the Division of Pacific and Asian History relating to the progress of their graduate students and visiting fellows.

Administration and general staffing of the Division, annual reports, correspondence, minutes, funding and conference papers. Includes records of predecessors the Department of Pacific History, Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, and Department of Far East Asian History.

Newspaper clippings, newspaper articles, correspondence, conference papers, and posters relating to the Bougainville crisis.

The papers cover John Ballard’s political research in the Pacific Islands of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia and Fiji. The majority of the collection is focused on Papua New Guinea where John Ballard was involved with the development of the political system leading up to and following independence in 1975. The papers also concern the Public Service administration courses John Ballard taught at the University of Papua New Guinea. There are a number of government related papers for the Pacific Islands.

The collection consists of reports, minutes of some ASOPA Council meetings, correspondence and internal documents relating to the School's administration, courses, staff, reviews and restructures. There are also documents relating to aspects of Australian administration in Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory.

Printed material including course materials, Territory of Papua New Guinea education curriculum and syllabus materials, school readers and magazines, research papers and other rare publications relating to education in Papua New Guinea.

Copies of judgements from the Land Titles Commission, Native Land Commission and New Guinea Central Court relating to Dr Sack’s work on land tenure in Papua New Guinea. Includes copies of transcripts of evidence before the Land Titles Commission on the matter of DA1 and DA 180 [Items 1-25]; copies of judgements of the Central Court of New Guinea (became the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Guinea in 1934) [Items 26-33]; copies of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea - Papua New Guinea Law Reports (PNGLR); copies of Unreported Judgements - PNG Central Court, PNG Supreme Court and PNG National Courts, and background notes.

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/order-order

Processing of this series has not been completed.

The series includes cassette tapes of seminars and lectures, reel-to-reel tapes, reels of film, slides and photographs of staff, students and events.The photographs and slides have been placed in an archival album.

Papers documenting Gerard Ward's research.

This series has not yet been processed.

These sound recordings cover School of Art lectures and workshops given by various artists from 1983 to 2005.

Records of Nigel Lendon's research, teaching and art practice including diaries, research notes, photographs, slides, recordings, posters, reference works, correspondence and journal publications. The records relate to Lendon's own practice and exhibitions, curatorial work on the Wagilag Sisters and Afghan war rugs exhibitions, art theory and art history, and outsider artists including Slim Barrie. There are records of his association with the Art Workers' Union.

This album contains photographs of campus and student life taken by Australian Forestry School student Brian Moore in the late 1940s.

The binders contain reports from examiners of PhD theses and their recommendations for awarding a degree and for prizes.

The material relates to linguistics research in Papua New Guinea and includes notebooks, articles, transcripts, and texts on Koiari, Koita, Mountain Koiari, Barai, Mangalasi, Aomie (Omie), Rigo, Police Motu (Hiri Motu) and Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin English).

The collection includes fifty field notebooks, as well as research notes, correspondence, offprints, photographs, negatives and aerial photographs related to his research in the Pacific region, including the countries - Papua New Guinea and Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), New Caledonia, Fiji and The Philippines. The photographs in this collection have not been listed. They can be found in box 6 (1 Type 5 box) and in boxes 7 - 10 (4 grey albums).

The staff files record staff appointments, promotion, travel, conditions of service and resignation/retirement. Only files of senior academic and administrative staff are retained. Files of Chancellors and Creative Arts Fellows are also included. It is an artificial series bringing together staff files from an earlier single number series, the multiple number Central Files (ANUA 53) and the annual single number Central Files (ANUA 239). An alphabetical list by surname indicates the box in which the file is located. File suffixes include A=Annex and C=Confidential.

22 sound cassettes recorded at the France in the Pacific conference at the Australian National University in 1991. Includes papers by Deryck Scarr; Colin Forster; Patrick Pillon & Francois Sodter; J.L Rallu; Dorothy Shineberg; Michael Panoff; Bronwen Douglas; Isabelle Merle; Hugh Laracy; Jean Chesneaux; Darrell Tryon; Karis Muller; Frederic Bobin; Alaine Chanter; Karin VonStrokirch; Bruno Saura; Honore Forster; Anton Ploeg; Donald Denoon, Stewart Firth, Robert Norton, Alan Ward, Stephen Henningham & Hank Nelson.

There are four copies of the album: one appears to be a file copy as it includes a list of photograph numbers in the back. Another is annotated to say that it was used in the London Office 1949-1952 (approx.). It is likely that the albums were compiled to show prospective staff members the facilities available at the University and in Canberra, as there are photographs of buildings, homes, churches, schools and recreational facilities. The 41 black and white photographs were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information and are endorsed with a single number with L prefix so are closely related to a National Archives' series of photographs (CRS A1200).

This series has not yet been processed.

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.

Index cards on medicinal and other useful plants in the Solomon islands, A-Z, arranged by plant family. The cards record: Name; Family; Habitat; Constituents; Therapeutic activity; Local names; Sources of information; Preparation and use; Regions reporting use; Other locations reporting use. Most of the information has been obtained from Central and Makira /Ulawa Province. The main language groups include: Temotu, Malaita-San Cristobal, Gela-Guadalcanal and New Georgia.

Consisting of 26 canisters of film rushes on the 'Sambia' People (a pseudonym created by Herdt) of Papua New Guinea for Under the Sun (BBC), one box of associated notes and correspondence, and one box of VHS tapes featuring various versions of the final programme.

Research papers and correspondence by Professor Nelson on Pacific related topics, particularly the impact of World War Two on the Pacific Islands. Includes drafts of biographies, articles, book reviews and presentations written by Professor Nelson.

Includes, brochures, stickers, clothing and posters relating to the prevention HIV/AIDS and other health matters in the Pacific Islands, particularly Papua New Guinea. Includes reports from the Department of Health in Papua New Guinea. Also contains election posters from Papua New Guinea from the 2012 elections.

Field notebooks, correspondence, and photographic materials relating to Elspeth Young's activities in Papua New Guinea.

The collection contains material related to the compiling and publishing of the Encyclopaedia of the Australian People. It includes correspondence with the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the ANU Research School of Social Sciences, various immigration and ethnic groups, publishing and marketing arrangements, copyright clearances, Project & Management Committee minutes, annual reports, articles and information submitted by contributors.

Documents relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.

Includes materials about elections and the public service.

Published material and research papers, reports and statistics relating to Papua New Guinea.

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'.

These are the agenda, minutes and agenda papers of both the Interim Council (1946–1951) and the Council (from 1951).

Publications and grey literature relating to Pacific culture and cultural collections in and about the Pacific Islands.

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.

Papers relate to McArthur’s work on population in the Pacific Islands, includes research notes and census data. Also includes copies of McArthur’s work 'Population of Pacific Islands' parts 1, 3, 6-9.

Papers relating to fieldwork and research at Kuk.

This series has not yet been processed.

1 carton containing broadcast correspondence reports, scripts for TV reports, ABC memos, reports from West New Guinea, telegrams, and various documents collected in New Guinea; press clippings on New Guinea from 1962-1966; a black binder with photographic materials, including negatives and slides of New Guinea; 1 type 3 box of slides of the Kashmir region in 1977 by Marjorie Taylor (aunt).

These films were recorded by Christensen in the area of the Wahgi Valley of Papua New Guinea, near the Department of PreHistory's excavations at Kuk, led by Dr Jack Golson. These films depict traditional methods of tool making, cooking, farming, and hunting, as well as funerary rites and other rituals.

Films were numbered and arranged according to information recorded on film boxes and cans. Since being digitised and being able to be viewed, the original order is no longer helpful, and films should be grouped as follows:

Axe making:
ANUA 695-2 (part 1)
ANUA 695-9 (part 2)
ANUA 695-18 (part 3)
ANUA 695-20 (part 4)
ANUA 695-11 (part 5)
ANUA 695-1 (part 6)

Axe use:
ANUA 695-22 (part 1)
ANUA 695-26 (part 2)
ANUA 695-19 (part 3)
ANUA 695-3 (part 4)

Bark cloth:
ANUA 695-4 (part 1)
ANUA 695-24 (part 2)
ANUA 695-23 (part 3)

Stone core:
ANUA 695-6 (part 1)
ANUA 695-28 (part 2)

Pandanus:
ANUA 695-14 (part 1)
ANUA 695-10 (part 2)

Funeral:
ANUA 695-12 (part 1)
ANUA 695-27 (part 2)

John Doa's Funeral (pig killing)
ANUA 695-17 (part 1)
ANUA 695-15 (part 2)

Quarrying:
ANUA 695-21 (part 1)
ANUA 695-29 (part 2)

Axe Socket:
ANUA 695-30 (part 1)
ANUA 695-25 (part 2)

Film items ANUA 695-5 and 13 are concerned with stone flakes, but are not specified as being a part of a series. Film items ANUA 695-7, 16, and 35 involve the use of stone axes, but are not specified as being a part of a series. Item ANUA 695-8 includes film of sewing a pandanus mat, trimming an axeblank, and collecting flaking stone.

Contains items related to: Egloff's thesis research, excavation at Wanigela, Collingwood Bay and Trobiand Island research notes, Northern District research notes, Goodenough Island research notes (with Peter Lauer), Ubir language materials, Rainu kinship studies; papers related to the Tam Ting Caves, Laos (conservation project); and a collection of papers relating to Egloff's tenure at the Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery.

This series has not yet been processed.