Details

Latitude

-6.973

Longitude

147.7225

Start Date

1873-01-01

End Date

1873-01-01

Please see PMB 1039 for full entry This collection (MS 7080, Box 3) consists of the following: FOLDER 1 - Letters to Lorimer Fison Items 9-11; George Taplin, 1873: Meru tribe kinship, Murray River Items 12-19; R.H. Codrington, 1892-3: New guinea and Melanesian languages Items 20-22; H.M. Jackson, Government House, Suva, 1903 Items 23-24; Wm MacGregor, 1888: New Guinea ethnology and languages Items 25-37; Basil Thomson, 1893: Fijian culture; recall to London Items 38-39; A.W. Howitt, 1905 Items 40-41; J.G. Frazer, 1907: Frazer compliments Spencer and Gillen on their work and discusses his plans for an anthropological fund at Liverpool, UK. Items 42-48; W. Skeat, 1903-4: Fiji/Tonga linguistics; publication of Fison article Items 49-59; J.B. Thurston, 1872 (incomplete) and 1893 Items 60-61; W.E. Bennett, 1903 Items 62-63; S.E. Peal (incomplete) Items 64-65; Letter from J. Hall, Fison's secretary, to J.G. Frazer, 1905 Item 65a; List of distinguished acquaintances FOLDER 2 - Correspondence with J.G. Frazer Item 66-104; 1896-1907: mostly anthropology of Australian aborigines FOLDER 3 - Notes and Tables Item 105-167; Mostly in Fison's hand, includes 7 returned questionnaires. Principal subjects are kinship and language among the Australian aborigines, but there is also material on Dobu (New Guinea) and Fijian languages. Includes kinship tables for tribes in the Murray River, SA; Murray/Darling; Yorke Peninsula, SA; Omeo & Gippsland, VIC; Jervis Bay, NSW areas. FOLDER 4 - Articles Item 168-208; A signed mss copy of 'Land tenure in Fiji' Item 209-224; Fellows, Rev. S.B. 'Grammar of the Pannieti dialect, British New Guinea, together with comprehensive vocabulary'. Proof copy Item 225-233; Sketch maps (2) and comparative lists of the vocabulary of New Guinea dialects: Saibai, Uroi, Baribara, Kaura, Moi, Wapi, Ari, Moipalo, Kubilo, A'loto, Bau, Gaiga, Kaipu, Kaurarega, Gudang Item 234; Note (incomplete) on numerals of New Guinea dialects Item 235; A comparative vocabulary of New Guinea languages FOLDER 5 - Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol.X,February 1874 Item 236; On pp.154-179 is Fison's article 'The classificatory system of kinship'. The volume bears the signature of E.M. Curr and his handwritten critique of Fison's article. Also marked in the table of contents is an article, on pp. 100-105, 'Abstract of a paper on aboriginal art in Australasia, Polynesia, and Oceania, and its decay' by H.E. Pain. PMB Identifier: AU PMB MS 1042 The digitisation of these microfilms was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

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