Australian National University Archives

Series308 - Richard Gilson Pacific Research papers on Samoa
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Item214 - Papers delivered at Hancock Seminar on British tropical dependencies -problems and policies since late nineteenth century. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1951.
Item215 - Proclamations re election of King of Samoa.
Item216 - Notes on German administration of Samoa.
Item217 - Notes (Gilson's and those made from others) on Samoan social structure. a) Gilson - notes on Samoan social structure; b) Notes from Lowell D. Holmes - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan Village; c) Notes from Margaret Mead - Social organization of Manu'a; d) Gilson - notes on how to analyse lineage relationships; e) Gilson - notes on family organization and lineage (including genealogies of some families); f) Notes from Williamson - Social and political Systems, vol. II; g) Gilson - notes on functions of intervillage political organizations; h) Notes from Williamson and Piddington - Polynesian Ethnology; i) Notes from Williamson - 'Sanctity of Chieftainship', Ch. IV; j) Gilson - notes on district fonos; k) Gilson - questions and results from interviews made in Samoa, n.d.; l) Gilson - notes on genealogies.
Item218 - Translation of Maretu's journal.
Item219 - Secretary of State, despatch on Cooperative movements in the Pacific.
Item220 - Material on Papua/New Guinea - a) Statement by P.C. Spender on Australian policy with regard to external territories, June, 1950; b) Notes from South Pacific on New Guinea and other territories, 1946; c) Cutting from Auckland Star on New Guinea, 27 May 1950; d) Gilson - notes on Papua/New Guinea.
Item221 - Letter from R.G. Roberts to Gilson on land tenure in G.E.I.C.
Item222 - Miscellaneous material on G.E.I.C. a) Gilson - general notes. b) Amendment to tax regulations, no.11., 1915; c) King's regulation on recruiting and employment of native labourers, no.1, 1915; d) Annual report of cooperative societies officer, 1947; e) Annual report of cooperative societies officer, 1948.f) Annual report of cooperative societies officer, 1949.
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Reports

Translation of Maretu's journal.