Melanesia (c200p.)

 
Component identifier:
Series 12039
Content Summary:

Box 127

Comprises of notes from publications, press cuttings, correspondence (some incomplete), genealogies, vocabulary lists, photographs (of natives from Ambrym, New Ireland, Kaiserin Augusta River, New Hebrides).

Correspondence includes:

Andrew Lang (London) to Rivers (6 letters) re totemism, [n.d.]

J.W. Layard (Felixstowe) to Rivers (2 letters) comments on his manuscript, [n.d.]

W.J. Durrad (Banks' Island) to Rivers re problems obtaining information from natives, 'They show reserve about the Salagoro', 1909-09-12

Hugh Watson (Cambridge) to Rivers re Conus from which natives of Banks' and Torres Straits make coinage, 1910-03-16

R.H. Codrington (Chichester) to Rivers re burial customs on Banks' Islands, 1912-11-18

W.J. Durrad (Banks' Islands) to Rivers re funeral customs on Vanua Lava, 1913-03-24

A. Radcliffe Brown (Birmingham) to Rivers re his manuscript on Andaman Islands, totemism, 1913-10-18

William Ambrim (Tangoa Station) to Rivers thanking him for gift of watch, 1915-03-01

Fred G. Bowie (Tangoa, Santo) to Rivers thanking him for gift of books; work; hurricane, 1915-03-03

W.J. Durrad (Banks' Islands) to Rivers re his work on Torres Straits vocabulary. 1916-08-24

Fred G. Bowie (Dunedin) to Rivers re family health; staying with brother, medical tutor at Otago University; use of bow and arrows by Torres Straits natives, 1918-06-03

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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