Guide to the Papers of William Halse Rivers Rivers (as filmed by the AJCP), 1898-1922

Summary

Collection number:

M2619 - M2625

Creator:

Rivers, William Halse Rivers

Extent:

78 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Papers include correspondence, notes, notebooks, typescripts, photographs and cuttings concerning social anthropology of the Torres Strait, New Hebrides, Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii, Fiji and Solomon Islands. Subjects include: notes on Ambrym; social organisation; marriage and childbirth; kinship, Mekeo system; totemism; medicine and funeral customs.

Correspondents include Frederick Bowie, R.H. Codrington, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Sidney Ray and Beveley Humes.

Biographical / Historical:

Doctor and anthropologist. Rivers took part in the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits in 1898 and went on expeditions to Melanesia in 1908 and 1914. Author of History of Melanesian Society (1914).

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2589500] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

For more information see Catalogues at the Cambridge University Library (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections/catalogues).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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