Guide to the Papers of Beatrice Blackwood (as filmed by the AJCP), 1929-1975

Summary

Collection number:

M2806 - M2819

Creator:

Blackwood, Beatrice

Extent:

151 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.

Citation 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:

Working papers: diaries, notebooks and notes relating to Blackwood's research in North Solomons, New Guinea, New Britain, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Sarawak (1929-37).

Correspondence 1931-74 concerning Blackwood's work. Main correspondents are A.P. Elkin, A.C. Haddon, M.J. Herskovitz, C.G. Seligman, H.D. Skinner, F. Speiser and J. Wingate Todd.

Material relating to the publication of Both Sides of the Buka Passage (1935).

Biographical / Historical:

Beatrice Blackwood (1889-1975) was an internationally distinguished anthropologist and ethnologist who worked in America, Melanesia, and New Guinea. She worked for over 30 years at the Pitt Rivers Museum, teaching and developing the Museum's cataloguing and indexing system. She read English at Somerville College, 1908-1912, and returned to gain a diploma in Anthropology in 1918. She took her BA and MA in 1920 when membership of Oxford University and the conferment of degrees was first opened to women. She undertook field work in the North Solomons for Yale University and in New Guinea and New Britain for the Pitt Rivers Museum. She was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1948 and was vice-president of the Royal Anthropological Society. Her major publications were Both Sides of the Buka Passage, Oxford, 1935; Technology of a Modern Stone age People in New Guinea, Oxford, 1950; and Classification of artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1970.

See also her obituary in The Times, 2 Dec. 1975.

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-vn2938095] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford University, Oxford, England. For further information see Beatrice Blackwood at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University (https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/blackwood-papers).

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.

Citation 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

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