Material pertaining to governance and reform in Port Moresby and New Guinea, including comparative material from East Africa, consisting of correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, reports.

Hand drawn map and family tree of founding family, with duplicates.

Printed draft with extensive annotations, plus additional notes and bibliography

Research notes, correspondence, and drafts of article.

Notes made in response to queries from Oram regarding life in Port Moresby in the early 20th century

Material towards a study of Reginald Edward Guise, including many letters from informants.

Material towards a study of Reginald Edward Guise, including many letters from informants.

Material from a folder labelled Guise, containing copies of primary soruces, correspondence, and an early typescript, with annotations, of Oram, Towards a Study of the London Missionary Society in Hula 1875-1968.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Pari Villagers,Gaile, Keapare, Babaka, trading canoes. Includes photograph attributed to Nixon Westwood (b.1885) and A.C. English. Also contains handwritten note of Oram.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Mr. and Mrs. Short with Giro Paula, Mission Girls , tattooed Girl Kaite, Kalo village, Bula'a.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Village of Kalo at mouth of Kemp-Welch River, Hula, Marietimaga, Keapara, Port Moresby, Iraugaro, Sinaugolo, Rigo

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Tupuselei, Gaile, Kapa Kapa, Keakaro, Demori, Capt. Butterworth & Armed Native Constabulary, Rev James Chalmers.

Photographs possibly by Oram depicting village life and missions. Captions include Raula, Deacons, LMS School, Kopi Koke, my canoe, Rami Kapari, Dango 1965, Lae Yokea Settlement, Viriolo. Keapara.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Miganigolo, Mr Shorts, Kemaia, Babaka, Velerupu Canoe, Stone Ovens of Gumoridobo, Kalo, Kapa Kapa,

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Gabone, Armed Native Constabulary, crocodile, war party, Siniva Samoan teacher's wife, Port Moresby, Mission Girls, Hula, Hula in Mr Short's time. 6 colour prints by another photographer.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Kopugolo, Babaka, Kapa Kapa, Seri Seri, Keakaro, Tattooing on Polynesian Girls, Perined Band on man.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention House-Boat Bulaa (1898), R.E. Guise, Kiwai, Rigo, Kapa Kapa, BNG Gov't Steamer 'Merrie England,' Velerupu sailing canoe.

Photographs and contact sheets depicting village life and canoes. Captions include Port Moresby, Tanobada, Tupuseli Marine Village, Tyrell, Western Motu, Pari village, Hamuabapa, Elevala village.

Research notes, correspondence, and family trees pertaining to research on Guise family.

Draft paper with notes and related correspondence, and material about Hiri, the Motu name for trading voyages.

Photocopies of mostly 19th century newspapers, some with annotations, selected for relevance to PNG

Pertaining to Guise family research and the London Missionary Society. Photocopies of newspapers, typescripts of Report of the Fifth to Sixth Voyages of the Ellengowan, 1870s; On Board the Lizzie Jardine 1873.

Correspondence with H. W. Champion re: life in Port Moresby; The Role of the L.M.S. in Papuan History; Sermon Preached by the Rev. Percy Chatterton…to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Death of Dr. William Lawes.

Printed draft with extensive annotations, plus additional notes

Findings by Native Land Commission, in connection with a claim by Geita-Sebea for Badili Laurina Iduhu of Kila Kila Village

2 photographs pasted on recto and verso of board inside plastic folder. Labelled Natives of Iraugaro - Singaugolo Tribe, and Dubu at Iraugaro.

Photocopies of primary sources, plus correspondence.

Typescript of Lawes' Diary (Held in State Library of New South Wales) 10th January 1876 to 14th February 1884. Also contains 4 pages of Brief History of the Hulu by Oram.

Handwritten notes generated during archival research. Topics include the Log of the Queenslander 1880s, Papua Annual Reports 1880s-1940s, Rigo Annual Reports 1899-1930s, Patrol Reports 1910-1950s, and others.

Folder containing draft of Oram, The Western Motu and Koita Area and the European Impact: 1872-1942, related correspondence, handwritten notes and maps.

Two texts by Groves: The Blending of Cultures, and Thesis Extracts, plus handdrawn map of Motu and Koita Villages, and an envelope labelled Motu Regalia containing clippings from the Papua and New Guinea Villager, vol. 8, no.2 (Feb 1957) 'Poreporena Initiation Regalia.'

Two copies of a typescript translation of D'Albertis' account of 1885, together with a photocopy of the original Italian, plus correspondence of Oram re: D'Albertis.

Correspondence between Oram and Ivan Champion and Percy Chatterton regarding the history of Port Moresby. Note discussion of alleged ritual murder.

Correspondence with Guise family members in PNG, maps of Guise land, and family trees

Subtitled A Study of Social Change, 41pp., together with The New Religion, an extract from a larger work, likely by the same author, 29pp.

Notes and primary source copies regarding charges against Reginald Guise in 1885

Case before the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea regarding owership of Era Taora, i.e.traditional land now in New Town, Port Moresby). 109 pages including extensive discussion of the history of the region and sovereignty.

Appendix to a draft of Simplified Motu to Police Motu prepared for a seminar of 22nd April, 1982

Handwritten and typed family trees

Draft, with handwritten annotations and notes, of a family history of Sir John Guise (first governer general of independent Papua New Guinea)

Document from an unidentified thesis, paginated 3920419. Also includes Abstracts from the Tenth Pacific Science Congress, Hawai'I, 1961.

Report commissioned in response to land claim

Folder marked Motu Morality by Murray Groves containing texts by Groves: Motu Kinship Terminology, and photocopy of part of Motu Morality

Handwritten transcription of late 19th and early 20th century correspondence, 6pp.

Retrospective remarks on MacGregor by Joyce, 10pp, plus Joyce's CV and 4p document marked Joyce Thesis Appendix. Also contains printouts of 2 primary sources: Narrative of Expedition of the Australian Squadron of New Guinea, 1884; Thirteenth Voyage of Ellengowan, 1876.

Vala'a (Hula) people of PNG, language and geneology, various handwritten notes

Correspondence and notes regarding Motu lexicon, plus 24 pages of draft of Motu dictionary

This series contains material generated by Jack Golson, together with Philip Hughes, Marjorie Sullivan and Chris Ballard, at Yonki in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands in the 1980s prior to the flooding of the region by the Yonki hydroelectric dam project (constructed 1986-1991).
This deposit has not yet been processed.

Photographs reserved for a (unidentified) publication, with caption and handwritten note

3 74x30cm maps: Vegetation Zones, Major Biotopes, and Neighbourhoods

13 Contact sheets of photographs taken by Barry Craig of the Telefomin and neighbouring peoples, with Craig's itemized list of subjects

Sheet of 16 slides mostly depicting village life in Wopkaimin region, labelled as plates presumably for publication

Photographs and a transparency found loose in one of Hyndman's solander boxes

74x30cm, plus small map Generalized Vegetation Zones of the Kam Basin

Loose slides found at the bottom of one of Hyndman's solander boxes, showing David Hyndman and Wopkaimin village life

Collected from Kiunga. Photocopy of original, but with pencil annotations.

Barry Craig's time with Telefomin people

Cultural and Sexual Appropriation and Consumption of the Melanesian and Aboriginal Other in National Geographic, and A World Brightly Different: Persistence of Primitivist Constructions of the Melanesian and Aboriginal Other

Handwritten manuscript of chapters 4-5, plus appendices, seemingly for a work on Fly River Populations, including the Wopkaimin

Research notes, lists, addresses

Material pertaining to the expedition provided by Barry Craig, including maps, diary extracts.

Bound presentation copy of David Hyndman's PhD Thesis, with inset maps

Depicting village life of the Wopkaimin region

Extracts from copies of patrol reports from the 1960s obtained by Hyndman, together with maps and Hyndman's handwritten notes.

3 ink drawings on satin tracing paper, showing bone displays in interior of Men's House, based on photographs.

Height and shape chart for flora of Bultem region, with correspondence

Slides from Miyanmin provided by George Morren, with handwritten descriptive sheet

List of Hyndman collection plus several maps showing Wopkaimin regions and surrounds, some with annotation.

Ok Tedi Environment Task Force, Office of Environment & Conservation

3 Manila envelopes (with annotations) containing slides, transparencies, photographs, handwritten notes, possibly for publication.

Photographs for publication, some with crop marks, and transparencies for black and white art, for use in Hyndman, Ancestral Rain Forests & The Mountain of Gold, 1994

Typescript by Wilson Wheatcroft, of oral narratives recorded and translated during fieldwork, with explanatory note and opening letter.

Bound table of flora, giving scientific and cultural data. No title or attribution

Tabular data, handwritten and printed

Folder labelled Plants PNG containing letters and notes pertaining to identifying plant and animal specimens

Card box containing photo roll showing house construction, and associated negatives

Typed manuscript, plus extensive handwritten notes

Folder labelled Plants/Names containing tabular data of plant taxonomy and usage

Folder containing extensive handwritten notes

Hyndman's report on his 1973-1974 field season among the Bultem people of Kiunga

Folder containing report on health in the North Fly River region, Ok Tedi nutrition, on resistant malaria, maps of Bellona (Mungiki) Island, handwritten notes, index cards.

Correspondence and typescript of Wilson Wheatcroft containing war stories and folklore collected at Opkeimin

Plastic box of slides labelled Wopkaimin Jan 1985

Unidentified photographs of headshots and a village in Papua New Guinea, fallen to the bottom of deposit box

Plastic box of slides labelled Roll 2, showing village life

Plastic box of slides labelled Ok Tedi Slides

Folder containing images of village life with a map transparency and note

Folder containing 15 slides submitted by Hyndman (but not used) for the Australian Conservation Foundation

Folder containing 17 25x25cm photographs, possibly for a publication on New Guinea

Pertaining to mining in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines

Folder containing maps, photographs, photocopies.

Sheet of 14 slides mostly depicting botanical drawings and specimens

Family trees and wordlist pertaining to kinship

Report prepared by Milne Bay Rural Development Study

Concerned with foodways and zoology. Internal dates December 1974.

Report prepared for the Office of Minerals and Energy by Richard Jackson, University of Papua New Guinea.

Report prepared for the Office of Environment and Conservation, by MSJ Keys Young Planner

Only 4 pages filled, under heading Causes of Death.

Tabulated data on specimens(?)

Notes on ethnobotany and agriculture. Internal date December 1974.