Notes by Haddon

Component identifier:

Series 16014

Content Summary:

Comprises: notes by Haddon on works by Deacon, Rivers and others on Melanesia and New Hebrides.

Subjects include: Boomerang in Melanesia; social groupings; Ambrym ceremonies; games.

Also includes:

Eastern Melanesia: summary of Prof. Speiser's lectures.

AB Deacon (Bushman's Bay) to Pere Tattevin (Pentecoste) re social organisation in Ambrym, n.d.

(see also 16005) (Copy).

Effigies: draft paper on life-sized effigies of Malekula.

D Mahony (National Museum, Melbourne) to Haddon re effigies from Malekula in the Museum, 1932-03-23

2 sketches of life-sized figures.

(113p.)

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M2521

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Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia