3.54 metres(4 MS Boxes + 1 Non-Standard MS Box + 7 Archive Boxes + 1 Folio-packet + 1 map folio)
Abstract Or Scope
This collection consists of anthropological source material on New Guinea, fieldnotes, lecture notes, drafts of government reports, and a unique group of pictorial material relating to this field and lecture notes. Most of these research documents relate to the publication "Rossel Island: an ethnological study", 1928. The pictorial material consists of photographs, lantern glass slides, photo albums, rubbings of artifacts (weaponry, carvings, etc.) done on the islands Suan Daui - Tavala, Taufe, Rebana, Enana and Cats Cradle. Armstrong drafted government reports for the Papuan government on issues relating to anthropology; language, social organization, local currency system, education, employment and taxation.