Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford - Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer - Papers, 1800-1930
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford - Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer - Papers, 1800-1930
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Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
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M 2422-2425
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Australian languages
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microfilm reels 35 mm
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Copyright status : In copyright
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The papers concern personal and university matters ; details on the planning and progress of expeditions ; anthropological matters including discussions on Aboriginal ceremonies and culture generally, the effect of white man, etc. ; discussion of Spencer's publications, lectures, specimens of fauna and weapons and other topics.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford - Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer - Papers, 1800-1930
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Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia holds the microfilm masters.
Available for reference.
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series: M 2422-2425.
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Pitt Rivers...
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Administrative / Biographical history
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was a biologist and ethnographer. He was Professor in Biology at Melbourne University, 1887-1919 and in collaboration with F.J. Gillen, 1894-1912, and afterwards alone, investigated and studied the Aboriginal people of Northern and Central Australia.
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M 2422-2425
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16AJkDdn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJkDdn
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432844
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