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This series has not been processed. Boxes received from Alan Atkinson (1-3), Bill Gammage (4), Ann Curthoys (5), Peter Spearritt (6-16), Stephen Foster (17-35, 37, 52-56), Ken Inglis (36), Allan Martin (38-48), Graeme Davison (49-50) and JW McCarty (51).

Research papers and notes on PNG elections, Kuma, Aboriginal Australians and gender relations; fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, draft manuscripts and completed MA thesis, sketches of kinship diagrams, reports and publications, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sound cassettes and reel tapes. Includes material from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS).

The collection was compiled by Charles Morris Woodford, naturalist and First Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 - 1915. The collection includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, sketches and research notes related to the natural history, geography and ethnography of the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands from 1884 - 1915, as well as family papers and documents related to the administration of Solomon Islands Protectorate. There are documents about relations between the missionaries and the traders, matters associated with labour and the alienation of land, economic activity and tourism. The collection includes Woodford's 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group' from 4 March 1884 - 22 June 1884 ; Woodford's diaries from 1886 - 1889 ; 140 photographs taken on the voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands in 1886 ; photographs of Rennell Island and inhabitants signed by Northcote Deck c1909. Of significance are ten large photographs of various scenes of the Solomon Islands, c1901, some published in The discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568, by Lord Amherst of Hackney and Basil Thomson (1901).

ANUA 481 is a consolidated collection of all four parts of the Woodford donation:
ANUA 481/1 is a photograph album containing 140 photographs taken in from April - October 1886 ;
ANUA 481/1 - 282 are items from 'bundles 1 - 30' ;
ANUA 481/ 283 - 317 relate to the second donation (ie PMB 1381) ;
ANUA 481/318 - 322 and 324 - 327 are eight large format photographs c1884 ;
ANUA 481/323 is a presentation plaque given to Woodford in 1905 ;
ANUA 481/329 is a collection of 126 photographs [ie PMB Photo 58]

Includes PNG volcanology papers

Glass plate negatives, photographs and memorabilia.

PNG vulcanology papers

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

Notebooks relating to fieldwork with the Hegeso people of Papua New Guinea, and cassette tapes of recordings of music, Foi stories, stories in pidgin, meetings, arbitration cases, lectures, radio recordings, interviews, and discussions.

Slide Folders: Approximately 3,005 slides arranged in 10 countries.

Papers relating to the Fiji Constitution Inquiry and Advisory Committee held in 1988-1989 and the Fiji Constitution Review Commission (FCRC) held in 1995-1996. Papers include meeting agenda, minutes, submissions, correspondence and consultation reports. Professor Lal was the Commissioner for the FCRC. Papers added in 2013 include papers on politics in Fiji, in particular, political unrest, the Indian Diaspora in Fiji, personal correspondence, Fijian local and family histories. Of significance is a file on the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (1996-2000) belonging to Graeme Dobell, Foreign Affairs Correspondent for ABC Radio until 2008.

The records consist of correspondence with the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA); material relating to the 1995 Global Cultural Diversity Conference, of which Jupp was a member of the Planning and Steering Committees; correspondence, clippings, research reports, meeting agenda and minutes, and submissions relating to the 1986 Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services (ROMAMPAS) which Jupp chaired; and meeting agenda papers of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs, of which he was a member.

These are copies of theses submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Masters degrees which were examined and the degree was not recommended.

Research papers relating to Rowse's preparation of a biography of Dr H C (Nugget) Coombs, A Reforming Life, including correspondence, notes of interviews, copies of articles and reports, and a copy of a PhD thesis by Sean Turnell, 'Monetary Reformers, Amateur Idealists and Keynesian Crusaders: Australian Economists' International Advocacy 1925-1950', Macquarie University, 1999. Includes draft typescript chapters of H C Coombs' autobiography Trial Balance (over 700 typescript pages) which include material deleted or abbreviated for the final version published in 1981.

There are publications relating to the former School of General Studies library (Chifley) and the Menzies Library, including articles relating to its construction, as well as a history for 1946–1996 by PA Vidot.

Urban Research Unit working papers, reports, reviews and correspondence; papers, reports and books authored or co-authored by Patrick Troy; papers, reports and books authored by others working in housing, town planning and urban development; papers relating to the Commonwealth Department of Urban and Regional Development; Whitlam Government correspondence, speeches and papers; papers relating to the South Australian Land Commission; housing research, reports and data; papers relating to the Board of Inquiry into the Administration of ACT Leasehold; proposals; seminar papers; personal correspondence and papers; photographs; newspaper clippings; certificates; CDs and DVDs relating to the State of Australian Cities Conference, water data and interviews; personal correspondence; slides, negatives and films relating to overseas trips.

Contains photographic prints, negatives and some albums. These records have not yet been described.

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This series contains research papers and publications, tutorial notes, photographs, correspondence, honours, awards and regalia related to the life and career of Peter Hall spanning the period 1951 - 2016.

Research material probably relating to Lacey’s 1975 PhD Thesis 'Oral traditions as history: an exploration of oral sources among the Enga of the New Guinea highlands'

118 tape recordings of oral histories, legends and genealogies. Compact cassettes C60, C90 and long play tapes.

19 field diaries and notebooks kept by Lacey, recording his research progress, process and details of interviews.

Collection includes language and research materials related to the Pacific, especially Vanuatu (previously New Hebrides), and the pidgin and creole languages of the Pacific region.

This collection of documents and images relating to Gordon Thomas's time in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea includes correspondence with the Department of External Territories regarding persons lost on the Montevideo Maru and proclamations from the Chief of the Japanese Army during the Japanese occuptaion of Rabaul. Photographs from the 1910s and 1930s are of people and places in German New Guinea.

The series includes administrative files maintained by Davidson as Professor of Pacific History and Dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies, dealing with staff including appointments, students, the Coombs building, the New Guinea Research Unit and committees of which Davidson was a member. There are two files which include material about his death. There are also research files which include correspondence, research notes, press cuttings from the Fiji Times, South Pacific Commission papers, articles by Davidson and others, and typescript copies of his Peter Dillon biography and Samoa mo Samoa. There are also parliamentary debates from Samoa and Kiribati and photographs related to the four-volume book 'Pacific Islands' published in 1943-1945.

Contains subject files and newsletters on countries kept by the Division of Pacific and Asian History: Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellis Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua/New Guinea, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Zealand, Nauru, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tahiti. Includes research papers and notes, governmental papers, publications, newspaper clippings, school readers and Cook Islands photostats.

Microfiche copies of newspaper clippings arranged by countries in the Asia, Southeast Asia, and Pacific regions.

Country files include subject matter relating to foreign relations, political process, defence, economy and trade.

Files on Asia include subject matter relating to the Great Powers in Asia, the United Nations, aid, conferences, defence, economy and trade.

Files on world issues include defence, nuclear energy, world aid, economy and trade, Great Powers, environmental problems, resources diplomacy, Antarctica, principles of international relations.

Working papers, speeches and photographs documenting Gareth Evans' time as a student, in politics as Chancellor of the Australian National University and in other activities.

There are two sets of material ( 2 items) in the collection including:
(i) a ringbinder primarily containing a set of genealogical diagrams, and,
(ii) a set of worksheets primarily containing survey plots of garden land use and ownership

There is little or no descriptive documentation attached to either set of records. As far as is known, Meggitt never published the results of this land survey.
The garden land use and ownership survey was conducted in July-September 1960, with tabulation in 1961 (Meggitt 1978: 109-109, and monthly dating on the worksheets).
The survey covers gardens of the Kara clan (at least, and possibly others) at Sari, a location near Wabag, in what was then called the Upper Lai Census Division 12, Enga Province. The genealogical data also appears to be mainly of members of the Kara clan, and was collected and added to between the 1950s and c.1987.
Sari was Meggitt’s main field site between at least 1955 and the 1980s (Meggitt 1957: 161, and personal communication with P Wohlt, who visited Meggitt there in the 1980s-, and T Hays.

NB. These materials, as far as it known, are the only surviving raw field data from Meggitt’s Enga studies, as he destroyed the other materials before his death.

Meggitt, M J, 1957. “House building among the Mae Enga, Western Highlands, Territory of New Guinea”. Oceania, 27(3), 161-176.

Meggitt, M J, 1978. “Reflections occasioned by continuing anthropological field research among the Enga of Papua New Guinea”. In: Foster, G M. Scudder, T., Colson, E., and Kemper, R.V. ed. Long-term field research in social anthropology. New York, Academic Press, 107-125.

The collection consists of manuscripts and old prints collected in Malaita by Fr Donatien Coicaud and Fr Christian Kamphuis. Includes Stories (Histoires) as language word lists, exercise books, prayer books, dictionaries, biblical material, and printed material.

The black and white and colour photographs were taken to document the demolition of heritage buildings at Mt Stromlo following the 2003 bushfires which destroyed a number of buildings. There are negatives, prints, architectural plans which indicate where photographs were taken from, and a catalogue to the photographs. Set A is the master set – Set B is a reference set for issue to the reading room. Colour prints with catalogue sheets are in envelopes C1-C94, black and white prints in envelopes BW1-BW62.

Academic and ceremonial dress including gowns for the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, University Marshall and Esquire Bedell and a page boy's outfit.

This is a master set of copies of the ANU’s publication The ANU Reporter. Issues for 2000 are missing from the set. Format and numbering is variable. Early issues are bound, issues after 1999 are loose.

Comprised of two sets of index cards. One is A-Z by surname of Council member. The second group of cards is arranged by categories of membership, such as Ex-Officio, Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, and Student Representatives

This series contains field notebooks from AMRAD expeditions to Kaironk Valley, Papua New Guinea, slides, correspondence and photographs.

Active administration files.

Field notebooks, slides, and correspondence relating to Elspeth Young's fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.

Negatives, photographs, and contact sheets of areas in Papua New Guinea. Areas include: Western District, Nomad River, Great Papuan Plateau, Min of the Star Mountains, Southern Highlands District, Huri, and Nembi. The items are divided into 10 folders, dates (if not provided) are 1963-1965, with folder 1: Kiunga to Nomad River, including a patrol post and airstrip; folder 2 and 3: Biami villages on the plateau (Nomad River); folder 4: Lavani Valley Muller Range, Burnett River and other locations on journey from Tari; folder 5: The Min of Olsobip and the mountains; folder 6: Seltamin of Strickland River and the mountains; folder 7: The Min of Olsobip and the mountains; folder 8: Olsobip, Telefomin, the Men of Olsobip and the mountains; folder 9: Huri, Southern Highlands 1957-1962; folder 10: Nembi, Southern Highlands, 1961.

The records in this deposit are source material for Dr Brian Galligan's book on the acquisition and development of Central Queensland coal resources by the US company Utah International. The book was published in 1989 by the University of Queensland Press as Utah and Queensland Coal: a study in the micro political economy of modern capitalism and the state. It covers the period from the late 1960's to the mid 1970's. At the time of publication Dr Galligan was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations.

The research files in this deposit are arranged in groups which roughly match the chapters of the book. A fair amount of the material on the Utah/General Electric merger in 1975 was obtained through US Freedom of Information procedures from the United States Department of Justice, Anti-Trust Division, which had investigated the merger. Further records held in the deposit include: tape recordings and transcripts of interviews with Utah executives, Queensland municipal officials and others; drafts of sections of the book; photographs; and printed material.

Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, articles, photographs and blueprints related to the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (Mt Stromlo Observatory) and the work of Kurt Gottlieb. This includes the design and construction of various telescopes at the Mt Stromlo site, work on optical munitions and site testing and development of the Siding Spring Observatory. The collection includes a large number of photographs of Mt Stromlo equipment, buildings and staff and a large number of blueprints for telescopes, equipment and buildings.

In 1997 Papua New Guinea was in the throes of a severe drought with frosts at high altitudes, which severely disrupted food and water supplies. Funded by AusAid, teams of researchers led by the authors, including Papua New Guineans and Papua New Guinea based agriculturalists, conducted field surveys to assess the impact of drought and frost on village food and water supply in all 19 provinces and most districts. The collection includes the field survey data sheets, the Excel database spreadsheet compiled by Joseph Viles, his BA Hons thesis and Bryant Allen's collection of research papers.

Material relating mostly to Pari and Pari Village Study but also Papua New Guinea in general, particularly health and medical services. Includes research papers, photographs, genetics data, genealogical charts and notes, correspondence, notebooks, clinical data print-outs, serials, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, index cards and maps. Material relates mostly to health of Pari people and medical services but includes material relating to a wide variety of subjects including genealogy, genetics, geography, Pari Church, anthropology, language, education, legends and stories, history, children and culture. Also includes material relating to Hiri, Motu and Koita people. Includes material in Pari and Motu languages.

A series glass plate negatives and photographs showing scenes of Kiribati and Rabaul.

These publications were produced by various sections of the University. This series has not yet been digitised.

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Photographic materials largely depicting Port Moresby and Rabaul.

Most of the films and audio tapes in this series record important events such as the laying of foundation stones, opening of buildings, conferring of honorary degrees and installation of Chancellors. There are also copies of staff interviews broadcast by the ABC and recordings of George Dreyfus, an ANU Creative Arts Fellow, and his music. The originals are not available for access – some reference copies have been made and others will be produced as required.

Reference copies:
The First Chancellor, colour, reference copy on video,1952;
The First Chancellor, colour, reference copy on DVD, 1952;
Opening of RG Menzies Library building by HM Queen Elizabeth II, reference copies on video, 13 Mar 1963;
Synchronos 72, reference copy on video, CD and DVD 1972;
Opening of Research School of Physical Sciences, speakers Dr Coombs, Mr Menzies, Professor Oliphant, Sir John Cockroft, Sir Douglas Copland reference copy on cassette tape, 5 Sep 1952;
Conferring of doctorate on Sir John Cockroft, speakers Professor Oliphant, Sir Douglas Copland, Sir John Cockroft, Dr Coombs reference copy on cassette tape, 5 Sep 1952;
Foundation stone ceremony, Haydon-Allen building [attachment to file: 12.3.1.1AA] reference copy on cassette tape, also in ANUA 20, 12 Oct 1959

This series has not yet been processed.

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.

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.

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).

This series has not yet been processed.

Papers relating to fieldwork and research at Kuk.

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.

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.

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

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

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'.

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

Includes materials about elections and the public service.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This series has not yet been processed.

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).

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.

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.