Melanesia

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            24 Archival description results for Melanesia

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            Carvings
            Carvings
            132-1-C-B-a040847 · Item · 1963
            Part of MOA General Media collection

            Display for exhibit "Melanesian Culture." Shows several clubs, figures, and other items.
            Goroka, Papua New Guinea
            157-01 · File · 1971
            Part of Victoria Henry fonds

            This file contains one teacher’s handbook, one 16-page photocopied document, and 57 colour and black and white photographic prints presumably taken by Victoria Henry during her trip to Goroka, Papua New Guinea. The photographs depict the town’s inhabitants in town, at the market, outside their homes, and in ceremony. The file includes a 16-page black and white scan of the original placement of photos in its former photo album. A Goroka Teachers’ College handbook is also included, possibly related to a photograph #55 of a schoolroom (on photo sheet #8), and contains a curriculum book to obtain a Diploma in Teaching from the country’s Department of Education.

             Victoria Henry
            James Watson
            29-2-41 · File · 1967-1968
            Part of Wilson Duff fonds

            This file contains correspondences from James B. Watson, with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, including multiple publications and draft papers shared with Wilson Duff. These include an introduction given at the 1968 Northwest Anthropological Conference in Portland, Oregon as well as the conference schedule. The introduction and three additional texts in the file are focused on the matter of leadership in 'small societies', mostly focused on the Tairora community of Abiera, in Papua New Guinea, and a leader named Mátoto.

            Texts authored by Watson theorize about the nature and allowance of Mátoto's despotic behaviour, as characterised by the author. A paper authored by Sylvia Gronewold attempts to draw comparisons between specific individuals from the Zulu, Caribou Inuit [Kivallirmiut] and Tairora peoples, and proposes that the authoritarian behaviours of some leaders in these communities arose as a result of European contact.
            Map of Melanesia
            Map of Melanesia
            132-1-C-B-a040833 · Item · 1963
            Part of MOA General Media collection

            Panel for the exhibit "Melanesian Culture." Shows a map of Melanesia linking different areas to different objects of Melanesian culture.
            Melanesian ancestor figures
            Melanesian ancestor figures
            132-1-C-B-a040931 · Item · [1969?]
            Part of MOA General Media collection

            Display for the Museum of Anthropology. Uncertain relation to exhibits. Possibly for an Oceania exhibit that may have been in place in 1969. Shows three carved ancestor figures.
            Melanesians
            Melanesians
            132-1-C-B-a040831 · Item · 1963
            Part of MOA General Media collection

            Panel for the exhibit "Melanesian Culture." Shows several photographs of Melanesians and maps of Melanesia.
            Melanesians
            Melanesians
            132-1-C-B-a040832 · Item · 1963
            Part of MOA General Media collection

            Panels for the exhibit "Melanesian Culture." Shows several photographs of Melanesians, maps of Melanesia, and diagrams of Melanesian objects.