Gerald C. Wheeler - Papers [M599], 1943-1954
Gerald C. Wheeler - Papers [M599], 1943-1954
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Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
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MAV/FM4/2701 Status: No longer available
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microfilm reel 35 mm
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Incomplete typescript draft of the Mono-Alu people of Bougainville Strait containing detailed descriptions of various aspects of their culture such as kinship, religion marriage, ownership and death rites. Many of Wheeler's statements are supported by verbatim quotations in the vernacular language together with translations. Includes a contents lis...
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Gerald C. Wheeler - Papers [M599], 1943-1954
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Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/91...
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Originals held by the School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet Street, London
Administrative / Biographical history
Anthropologist. In 1908 and 1909 he undertook research work in the Solomon Island. He spent much of the latter part of his life working on a comprehensive account of the culture of the Mono-Alu people. Mono and Alu are islands of the Bougainville Strait, Western Solomon Islands
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MAV/FM4/2701 Status: No longer available
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9arp03pn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arp03pn
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432579
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