Brief description
A collection of ethonographic objects acquired during the period when Australia administered Papua New Guinea as a colonial outpost. This collection and the associated primary documents reflect the lives and experiences of Australian's working in the region during this time.Full description
The Australians in Papua New Guinea collection is an assemblage of material collected in the years that Papua New Guinea was under Australian colonial administration. This collection was accumulated across different regions and time, dating from World War One right through to Papua New Guinean independence in September of 1975. Collected by five different people all of whom worked in different roles exposing them to a diversity of different cultural groups and associated material culture. A number of these collections are also accompanied by documentation and photos which talk to the lives and experiences of Australian in Papua New Guinea during this period.Data time period: 1918 to 1975
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: New Ireland
text: Sepik River
text: Manus Island
text: Ambunti
text: Maprik
text: Lake Kopiago
text: Trobriand Islands
text: Madang
text: Papua New Guinea
text: Telefomin
Subjects
20th century |
Ambler |
Anthropological specimens |
Artefacts |
Brand |
Briggs |
Collecting |
Documents |
Goodlet |
Indigenous peoples |
Kabisch |
Papua New Guinea |
Photographs |
Photography |
Stanwix |
colonial administration |
colonies |
indigenous artefacts |
indigenous people |
missionaries |
patrol officer |
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Identifiers
- Local : WAM 3
