Item 13 - Solomon Islands Museum

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AU ANUA 445-13

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Solomon Islands Museum

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  • 1952 - 1977 (Creation)

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(1926 - 19 April 2014)

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Includes: • draft of paper, “The Solomon Islands Museum, its potential and proposed development”, Appendices I, II, III & V; • Solomon Islands Research Register, No.II, 1973; • Stephen Black and R.C. Green, “Radiocarbon dates from the British Solomon Islands Protectorate to December 1973”, Working Paper of the Southeast Solomon Islands Culture History Project, Dept of Anthropology University of Auckland, Jul 1975, Ts., roneo, 49pp. • correspondence with Anna Craven, c.1974-1975; • Solomon Islands Museum Association, Newsletter, No.2, n.d., with membership list, Transactions (British Solomon Islands Society for the Advancement of Science and Industry, Honiara), Vols.I-III, 1952-1956. Transferred to PMB Doc 532 and microfilmed there. J.L.O. Tedder (Director of Information and Broadcasting Library and Museum), “Laws for Protection of Artefacts” (draft), 10 May 1971 (?), Ts., 6pp. “The Solomon Islands Museum”, n.d., Ts. (draft?), 9pp. W. Poggendorf, “Rice and its future prospects in the Solomon Islands”, BSI Society Transactions, meeting 26 Mar 1952, Ts., roneo, 4pp. Transferred to PMB Doc 532 and microfilmed there.

R,W. Firth, “Anthropological Field Work in the Solomon Islands”, BSI Society Transactions, meeting 1952 (?), Ts., roneo, 4pp. Transferred to PMB Doc 532 and microfilmed there J.L.O. Tedder, “Old Village Sites on Marovo Island”, n.d. (c.1973), Ts., 7pp. “Museum – Notes on transfer in January 1972”, Ts., 3pp. J.L.O. Tedder to Mr Cartland, DO, Santa Cruz, 2 Oct 1970, re his museum contributions, Ts., carbon, 1p. J.L.O. Tedder (Chief Information and Broadcasting Officer), “Conservation Ordinance”, 4 Nov 1974, Ts., c.8pp. Constitution of the Cultural Association of the Solomon Islands, n.d., Ts., roneo, 3pp. With Newsletter No.5, n.d., 1977 AGM minutes and accounts, and minutes of executive meeting held 20 Jan 1977. Constitution and proposed constitution of the British Solomon Islands Museum Association, with minutes of its inaugural meeting, 9 Feb 1972, and of a meeting held on 19 Apr 1974.

Rules of the British Solomon Islands Society for the Advancement of Science and Industry, n.d., Ts., roneo, 2pp. Transferred to PMB Doc 532 and microfilmed there. Sundry papers re SI Museum, including advertisement for a curator, 1968, with miscellaneous BSIP administration circulars. Murray Chapman to Margaret and Jim, 12 Oct 1970, Ts., 3pp., enclosing copies of correspondence, 10 Aug & 8 Oct 1970, involving the New Zealand Geographical Society re the Tedder Affair”. Lindsay Wall, Surrey, UK, to Jim Tedder, 5 Jun (?), Ts., p/c, 2pp., with Lindsay Wall’s, “Report of visit to Christchurch Museum, Christchurch, NZ (March 1970)”, Ts., p/c, 2pp.

T.F. Donovan (Headmaster King GeorgeVI School), to Tedder et al., circular letter re proposed experimental; archaeological site, 7 Sep 1972, Ts., carbon, 1p. Bundle of correspondence addressed to Jim Tedder as Chair of the Solomon Islands Museum Association, Mar-Dec 1970; with agenda and minutes of the inaugural meeting of the Museum Sub-Committee of Honiara Town Council, 23 Apr 1968, and “Notes for Museum Subcommittee”, Ts., roneo, 4pp.

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