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For science, salvage & state - official collecting in colonial New Guinea

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The Papuan Official Collection is a unique colonial collection assembled between 1907 and 1938 by government officers of the Australian administration of the Territory of Papua. It represents the first instance in the world where a colonial government made ethnographic collecting a requisite duty of its field officers. This unusual turn of events came at the insistence of Papua's first and longest serving Lieutenant-Governor, J.H.P. Murray, who administered the colony for over three decades. The story of how Murray came to establish an offic...
Display date:
2019
Location:
Papua New Guinea
Format:
thesis(phd)
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Australian National University Library
Publisher:
Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
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Online
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