Cambridge University Library - Arthur Bernard Deacon - Papers, 1907-1934
Cambridge University Library - Arthur Bernard Deacon - Papers, 1907-1934
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Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
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M 2520-2521
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microfilm reels 35 mm
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Microfilm : M 2520-2521. See contents list (7pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, Vol. 12.
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The papers include : biographical notes, correspondence and press cuttings re Deacon and the publication of "Malekula : a vanishing people in New Hebrides", 1926-34 ; correspondence of Deacon with Haddon and others ; correspondence between Haddon and A. Radclifle Brown re Deacon , 1927-31 ; other correspondence to Haddon re Deacon ; press cutti...
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Cambridge University Library - Arthur Bernard Deacon - Papers, 1907-1934
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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 microfilm master
The Deacon papers form part of the Haddon papers at Cambridge University Library
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Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous...
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Administrative / Biographical history
Anthropologist. Travelled to Malekula, Northern New Hebrides in 1926 to make an ethnographical study, visiting Bushman's Bay, Atchin, Big Nombas Territory and Ambrym. He died of blackwater fever in 1927
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M 2520-2521
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Y0KDLdP1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KDLdP1
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432855
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