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.
Eves, RichardPhotographic project by Sean Davey, comissioned by Ann-Marie Treweeke of Lovell Chen Architects to the bathroom features of nine bathrooms in University House before they were redeveloped in line with the rest of the building due to previous hail storm damage.
ANU Facilities and Services DivisionField notebooks, correspondence, and photographic materials relating to Elspeth Young's activities in Papua New Guinea.
Young, Elspeth AnneAssociated Chamber of Manufactures minutes of annual meetings (1904-1978), annual conference (1906-1913), Executive Meetings (1917-1972), Federal Council (1972-1977) and committees, annual reports, subject files, the Canberra Letter (1939-1954) and printed material. Confederation of Australian Industry subject files including minutes and correspondence, annual reports, film (Indonesian President Suharto in Australia, 1972) and printed material. Records of the Australia-Japan Business Co-operation Committee (1963-1988), the Australia-China Business Co-operation Committee (1973-1987) and others including Indonesia and The Philippines. Also includes minutes of the Australian Council of Exporters, the Australian Plastic Sanitaryware Manufacturers Association, the Canvas Goods Association, the Dairy Equipment Manufacturers Association, the Food Equipment Manufacturers Association, the Drop Forging Association and the National Council of Environment Quality.
Associated Chambers of Manufactures of AustraliaMeeting minutes and agenda from various committees including: Melbourne Stock Exchange Committee; Joint Committee; Board of Directors and other smaller committees.
Stock Exchange of MelbourneFour volumes of applications and correspondence relating to requests from companies to be listed on the official lists of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne.
Stock Exchange of MelbourneGuest registers and signatures of visitors to the Stock Exchange of Melbourne, including Prime Ministers Earle Page and JB Chifley.
Stock Exchange of MelbourneSydney. Issued by the Graziers' Association of New South Wales and the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling
Graziers' Association of New South WalesThe 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.
Jupp, JamesMinute books, letterbooks and some financial records of the Queensland Shearers' Union, Blackhall, the Queensland Labourers' Union, Barcaldine and Springsure, and the Amalgamated Workers' Union and Australian Workers' Union, Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville, including some records of the Australian Labor Federation, Barcaldine and the Workers' Political Organisation, Charleville and Warrego. AWU records of the 1956 shearers strike were microfilmed and then returned.
Queensland Shearers' UnionDocuments relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.
McGrath, William AdrianPublished material and research papers, reports and statistics relating to Papua New Guinea.
May, Ronald JamesFiles created by the Executive Editor of the Journal of Pacific History. Contains financial documents, correspondence, materials related to editing/proofing, printing, distribution and publicity for the journal and also some of the JPH monographs. Also includes some copies of minutes of meetings.
Research School of Pacific and Asian StudiesStation records including correspondence re station management, letter books, diaries, financial records, wages books (including shearers), stud books, wool books, ration books, pastoral awards and printed materials, maps and plan
Foxlow StationThe deposit consists of CSR Sydney Archives Section files containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories of the sugar industry, immigration and labour, bibliographies and papers re Knox family, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry. Also includes records relating to the Fiji sugar industry, pineapple activities in Fiji and Fiji tramways.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedSarah 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, SarahThese are the agenda, minutes and agenda papers of both the Interim Council (1946–1951) and the Council (from 1951).
CouncilPublications and grey literature relating to Pacific culture and cultural collections in and about the Pacific Islands.
Specht, James RichardSection A Reels 1-18 consist of microfilm copies of CSR Sydney Library Archive Section files (originals in NBAC N305) containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry, immigration and labour.
Section B Reels 1-2 are closed.
Section C Reels 1-19 are microfilm copies of Raw Sugar Marketing Division documents relating to the International Sugar Council, international sugar matters and charter parties.
Section D Reel 1 consists of microfilm copies of Drug Master File 1324 containing information lodged with the Food and Drug Administration by CSR plus a microfilm reader index.
Section E Reels 1-737 consist of microfilm copies of Head Office correspondence exchanged between branches, mills and officers. These reels continue the various Head Office correspondence series found within deposit 142 and on occasion into the early 1970s some correspondence begin with the microfilm series.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedFiles on the affairs of the NSW Branch of the Builders' Labourers' Federation, notably green bans and Federal intervention; records of the Builders' Labourers for Democratic Control; personal correspondence, notes and diaries, drafts of an unfinished history of the Branch; papers relating to the Darling Harbour Construction Project; papers collected by Abe David; photographs, pamphlets, leaflets, posters and serials.
Owens, JosephA large collection of political pamphlets, serials and leaflets, together with papers relating to Langer’s own political activities, the anti-Vietnam War movement and organisations involved in radical politics, such as Students In Dissent, the Bakery, Monash University Labor Club, Worker Student Alliance, Eureka Youth League, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Jews Against Zionism, Software Liberation Campaign.
Langer, AlbertThis 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, BarryPapers from David Buchanan's work on legal issues around HIV and AIDS including discrimination, health, and human rights.
Buchanan, DavidFilm reels (4), video reels (10), sound tape reels (3) received or produced by the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the MV Kanimbla Social Club
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaIncludes minutes, correspondence and office files, financial records, records of the company fleet, personnel records and photographs.
Adelaide Steamship CompanyAAESDA ACT branch minutes 1945-1975, AAESDA Handbook 1959, AAESDA/ADSTE Annual General Meetings and reports 1972 - 1991, PIEUA and PKIU board of management and executive meetings 1961- 1988, PIEUA and PKIU minutes of ordinary meetings 1964-1979, AMWU attendance book 1995-2005, PIEUA and PKIU register of apprentices (1963-1980) and ACT membership book alphabetical with surnames (nd).
Australian Manufacturing Workers' UnionThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Flight Attendants' Association of AustraliaMember registers for courts across Victoria; meeting minutes, agendas and business papers; reports; rules; laws; ritual books;
papers relating to annual and official dinners; conference papers; social committee papers; fund management forms; financial papers; sick registers; investment registers; cash books; contribution books; registration books; trustees' ledgers; correspondence; circulars; memoranda; ceremonial ribbons and sashes; badges; assorted ceremonial items (horns, protractors, gavels, blocks, table cloths); metal and wooden storage boxes; certificates; photographs.
Includes station store ledgers, monthly returns, station returns, weekly reports, cash books, rough diaries, some staff records, shearing records, correspondence including letterbooks, rainfall records, and a small number of building plans.
Manfred Pastoral HoldingAll types of company records from the many divisions of the organisation which include administration, corporate affairs, finance, legal, marketing, personnel, technical, export and planning. Includes records of subsidiaries, advertising material, wine labels, photographs, label specification books, staff records, awards, slides, audiotapes and videos.
Lindeman (Holdings) LimitedThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Manchester Unity Independent Order of OddfellowsThis deposit has not yet been processed.
McDonald, GeoffNot yet processed.
McDonald, GeoffThis collection contains Norm Docker’s private notes and publications collected by him as a Communist Party member and activist. It does not contain records about his activities as the Waterside Workers’ Federation official.
Docker, NormMinute books, office files, correspondence re records of and about the Association, and journals of the Australian Economic Association, The Australian Economist (1888-1898).
Australian Economic AssociationPapers relating to the Women’s Electoral Lobby campaign on enterprise bargaining; miscellaneous personal papers. Includes files, press clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, serials and arbitration case files.
Ryan, Edna MinnaRecords relating to the Balmain Ironworkers’ Dispute, including minutes of the rebel Balmain branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association, correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings and printed material.
Origlass, NicholasPapers 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.
McArthur, Norma RuthSeven reels of the Horizon episode the Long Long Walkabout, circa 1975; two sound recordings (magnetic tape) from The Last Tasmanian (La Dernierre Tasmanienne), 1977; and nine sound cassette tapes.
College of Asia and the PacificPapers relating to fieldwork and research at Kuk.
Hughes, PhilipAdministrative files, correspondence, maps, diagrams and other materials, largely related to excavations at Kuk.
Golson, JackThis series has not yet been processed.
Ambrose, Wallace Raymond1 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).
Luck, GeoffreyLondon. Issued by the Directors of the AACo. Includes copy of publication: Emigration to Australia (1849)
Australian Agricultural CompanyThese 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.
Christensen, Ole A.This series has not yet been processed.
Golson, JackMost 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
Records of Unilever (Australia) Pty Ltd, Lever Brothers Pty Ltd, Burford & Sons Ltd, J Kitchen & Sons Ltd and Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd and some of their associated/ subsidiary companies - Commonwealth Copra Company, Eugene (Australia), Eugene (New Zealand), Hillcastle (New Zealand), J & E Atkinson, Lever Associated Enterprises, Neptune Oil Company, Rexona Pty Ltd, Soap Distributors Ltd and Sydney Soap and Candle Company. Includes various minute books, correspondence files, company journals, reports, formulae books, photographs and factory plans. The History of J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd, a manuscript compiled by Arnold Riches, The Story of Rexona Pty Ltd by Ken Washington and Rosella: celebrating 100 years of care, a Rosella Public Relations/Promotional Program publication, are useful sources of historical information that complement the business records of these companies. Photographs in the collection depict the many facets of Lever Brothers Pty Ltd/Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd operations at Balmain - the factory buildings, machinery, manufacturing processes, products, staff and employees as well as J Kitchen & Sons Ltd factories at Port Melbourne and Alexandria, Rexona Pty Ltd product launches and promotions, and ‘Good Rexona Town’ signs that appeared throughout NSW and Victoria in the 1930s and 1940s.
Unilever (Australia) Pty LtdRecords of the Spanish Relief Committee, including minutes, correspondence, circulars, extracts from the diary of Una Wilson, a volunteer nurse sent to Spain by the SRC, photographs and printed material; case files of the legal firm Christian Jollie Smith & Co relating to the Rothbury Miners’ Riot Case, 1930, and the Newtown and Glebe Eviction Riot Case, 1931. Jollie Smith, a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia, was acting for the International Class War Prisoners Aid in these cases.
Thorne, Phillip TPhotographic materials largely depicting Port Moresby and Rabaul.
Della Torre, PeterNot yet processed
Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital TerritoryThis series has not yet been processed.
Grieve, JamesThis series has not yet been processed.
ANU Postgraduate and Research Students' Association8 drawings of buildings in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.
Coxsedge, Joan MarjorieMaps, plans, diagrams, index cards, photographic materials (slides and negatives), notes and drafts.
Irwin, PIncludes information about Edward Waters and his estate, examples of client paperwork, and information about the development of intellectual property law in Victoria.
WatermarkThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Cole, Bert Amos NevilleExecutive meetings files (1958-2004), arbitration files (1945-2005) including GC [Greg Combet] files (1995-2004), D annual single number files (1989-1997), speeches (1991-2005), congress papers (1979-1997), general submissions (1986-2005), papers relating to Ansett Australia (2000-2004), and speeches and photographs relating to Clyde Cameron College (1976).
Australian Council of Trade UnionsMelbourne. Published by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Some gaps in holdings
Australian Council of Trade Unions1954 (vol. 1 nos. 1-3), 1955 (vol. 2 nos. 1-2 plus 2 supplements), 1956-1957 (vol. 3 nos. 1-5), 1958-1961 (vol. 4 nos. 1-12), 1962-1967 (vol. 5 nos. 1-12), 1968-1970 (vol. 6 nos. 1-5), 1977-1979 (vol. 1 nos. 1-13), 1980 (vol. 2 nos. 1-3), 1981-1982 (vol. 3 nos. 1-4), 1983 (vol. 4 nos. 1-2), 1984 (vol. 5 nos. 1-2), 1985-1990.
Australian Council of Trade UnionsIn 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.
Allen, BryantIncludes 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.
Gottlieb, KurtThe 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.
Galligan, Brian JohnNegatives, 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.
Hoad, Robert A.Microfilm copy of financial records, cash books, certificates issued, brewing manual, stock and order books. Includes ledgers of Allt's Brewery and Wine and Spirit Company (1888 - 1895), Resch's Waverley Brewery and Resch's Ltd.
Resch's LimitedRecords of the Workwatch Occupational Health and Safety Training Centre including minutes,reports, correspondence, financial records, training course material and printed material.
Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital TerritoryThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital TerritoryMinutes of general meetings (1931-1993), Executive Committee (1973-1988) and committees, reports, correspondence with registers, financial records, subject files, records of Charles McDonald relating to his role as Secretary and also to the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia (ACT Division) and the Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union (ACT), posters, newspaper cuttings and printed material.
Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital TerritoryThis deposit has not yet been processed. Contents include college trainers’ meeting minutes, correspondence, reports by TUTA state directors, flyers, course materials, newsletters made by course participants, and material relevant to union education.
Hanlon, DesPolitical and personal papers, correspondence (including with Edna Ryan), diaries, note books, minutes, press cuttings, and printed material.
Kavanagh, John Patrick MarcusSouth Africa. Published by the South African Typographical Union. Holding issues: Jun 1930, Nov 1930, Feb 1955, 1965-1969 (gaps), May 1971- Nov 1973 (gaps).
South African Typographical UnionA series of interviews with former Griffiths Brothers employees recorded as part of a research project.
Crawford, RobertMinutes, correspondence, financial records, and list of officer bearers. Includes minutes of predecessors and of Chinese societies in Sydney and Melbourne including the New South Wales Chinese Empire Reform Association, the Chinese Debating Society (Sydney), the committee for the collection of donations to help the struggle against Japanese invasion, the Self-Protection Society of Sydney, and the Kong Chew Society. Records are mostly in Chinese.
Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New South WalesMelbourne
Professional Officers' Association, Australian Public ServiceBetween 1989 and 1991 Macpherson drew the cartoons anonymously for the Samoa Observer. While working for the Department of Education, Western Samoa he created and edited Our World Too, a newsletter for young people in Samoa.
Macpherson, Colin RobertActive administration files.
Pacific Research ArchivesComprised 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
CouncilThis 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.
ANU Marketing and Communications DivisionAcademic and ceremonial dress including gowns for the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, University Marshall and Esquire Bedell and a page boy's outfit.
Australian National UniversityThe 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.
ANU Facilities and Services DivisionMinutes and meeting papers, correspondence, subject files, committee records, conference papers, financial and administrative records, reports, surveys, press cuttings and files of the AWF Economic Research Unit.
Australian Wheatgrowers' FederationThe 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.
Coicaud, DonatienMinutes of meetings - Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union, 1889-1922, WWF Sydney Branch, 1922-1991, Federal Council, 1944-1964, Federal Committee of Management, 1942-1954, Sydney Port Committee, 1991-1993, Stop Work meetings, 1944-1992; Disciplinary Committee minutes and other papers, 1910-1990; Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority files, 1942-1978; membership records, 1891-1952; letter books, 1902-1916; subject/correspondence files, 1917-1992; arbitration material, 1902-1992; elections, 1930-1987; Ron Maxwell’s papers, 1952-1972; conference minutes and reports, 1914-1965; WWF rules and awards, 1890-1991; other unions’ rule books and membership cards, 1910-1957; photographs, 1880s-1960s, 1994; ephemera, 1992, audiovisual material, 1992; clubs’, groups’ and committees’ files, printed material, newspapers and journals. Includes, also, records of the Sydney Mechanical Branch, 1950-1983.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaThere 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.
Meggitt, Mervyn John