Query: Melanesia
MS 7333 Strategic Bulletins of Oceania
Creators:
Yale University. Institute of Human Relations
Dates:
1943
Size:
125 Items (1.25 inches)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7333
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Includes "Gazetteer of the Marshall Islands"; "Meteorology of the Marshall Islands"; "Emergency Adaptations in Melanesia: Some Practical Suggestions"; "Seaplane Landings in Northern Dutch New Guinea"; "Food and Water Supply in the Marshall Islands"; "Distribution of Diseases in Melanesia"; and "Meteorology of the Caroline Islands."

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Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
Creators:
British Broadcasting Corporation
Attenborough, David, 1926-
MacIntyre, Michael
Dates:
1974-1975
Size:
Film reels (color sound; 29,600 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1975.05
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of outtakes from an episode of The Tribal Eye, a seven-part BBC documentary series on the subject of tribal art, written and presented by David Attenborough. Man Blong Custom, the sixth episode in the series, was hosted by David Attenborough and filmed in Melanesia on the islands of …

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Records
Dates:
1942-1946
Size:
16.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (29 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 87
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection includes records concerning the Board's projects, general correspondence, committee and organization work and information concerning specialized data and special subjects. Postwar regional administration records, geographic reports, country information files, photographs and uncompleted project records are also included, as are the Board's fiscal, conference, meeting and miscellaneous records.

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Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
Creators:
Müller, Kal, 1939-
Dates:
1968-1974
Size:
39 Film reels (color, 16mm)
29,095 Slides (color, 35mm)
1 Linear foot
Collection ID:
HSFA.1975.01
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Kalman "Kal" Antal Muller is a photographer and author who spent several years during the late 1960s and early 1970s living with and documenting kastom (in Bislama; tradition or custom, in English) communities in Vanuatu, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) consists largely of unedited reels of 16mm film and 35mm photographic slides that Muller shot on multiple trips to the Banks, Malekula, Pentecost, and Tanna islands from 1968-1974. Supplementary textual materials include correspondence, production records, and published articles related to Muller's time in Vanuatu.

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Correspondence
Dates:
circa 1920-2003
Size:
5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 14-309
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records created and maintained by David B. Lellinger, Curator of Ferns in the Department of Botany. Materials include correspondence; notes; specimen lists; species indexes and information; reprints; course work; manuscripts; sketches; and photographs and negatives. Some materials date from before Lellinger's work at the Smithsonian Institution …

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Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel papers
Creators:
Rosman, Abraham
Rubel, Paula
Dates:
1956-2004
Size:
10.5 Linear feet (24 boxes, 1 folder)
Collection ID:
NAA.2018-02
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel were professors of anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. The collection consists of materials documenting their research, writing, and teaching, and reflects their interests in ritualized exchange systems, kinship, social organization, and material culture.

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MS 4240 Typed copies of articles translated by Work Projects Administration workers
Creators:
Dose, R.
United States. Work Projects Administration
Dates:
undated
Size:
595 Items (ca. 595 pages)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4240
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
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Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1
Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology
Dates:
ca. 1860s-1960s
Size:
14,500 Items
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.97
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Consists of photographs collected by the United States National Museum (USNM) Division of Ethnology and later by the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology (SOA). Coverage is worldwide outside North America. Most of the items are photographic prints, some in albums. There are also negatives, photomechanical prints, artwork, and newsclippings. For the …

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Exhibition Records
Dates:
circa 1962-1993
Size:
4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 94-088
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession contains records documenting the planning, construction, and maintenance of permanent and temporary exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Materials include scripts, plans, drawings, memoranda, reports, photographs, and related materials documenting Hall 7, "Peoples of Asia and Africa," and Hall 8, "Peoples of the Pacific;" files maintained by …

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Summer Banner films of the South Pacific
Creators:
Banner, Summer
Dates:
circa 1982-1986
Size:
Film reels (S8mm)
2 Videocassettes (43 minutes, color sound)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1998.16
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of video and motion picture film shot by Summer Banner in the 1970s and 1980s in the South Pacific and of the Festival of Pacific Arts. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its …

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