Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Newsletter Room 4201, Coombs Building (9) Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Ph: (612) 6125 2521; Fax: (612) 6125 0198; Email: [email protected] http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/
Series 5, No. 15 November 2002
Contents News from Canberra p.1 Western Pacific High Commission Archives Arrive in Auckland p.3 Comment on GEIC Archives by Richard Overy p.4 Reverend J. Graham Miller’s Vanuatu Files p.5 Pacific Islands Archives at the South Australian Museum p.6 Bud Watkins’ Papuan Patrol Reports p.7 AusAid Library and AusAid Project Reports p.7 NLA Digitising Pictorial Material in the Hurley and Spencer Collections p.8 Fr Philip Gibbs SVD, Archives Projects at the Melanesian Institute, Goroka, PNG p.8 Susan Cochrane’s Contemporary Pacific Art Archives p.9 New Guide to Pacific National Archives and Records Laws p.9 The Fiji Oral History Project p.10 Recent PMB Microfilm Titles p.12
News from Canberra The papers of Dorothy Crozier, the first Western Pacific archivist, which were The shipment of the archives of the Western transferred to the Bureau last year have been Pacific High Commission (WPHC) from London arranged and parts of them are now available on to Auckland is a major event in the history of PMB microfilm. The Crozier papers included Pacific archives administration. Heather papers of Shirley Baker, the first Premier of Yasamee, the Manager of the British Foreign Tonga, and his daughter Beatrice. Mrs Sioana and Commonwealth Office Historical Records Faupula was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at Department transferred the archives to Stephen the Bureau to identify the Baker papers many of Innes, the Special Collections Librarian at the which are in Tongan. Lists of both record groups University of Auckland, in an official ceremony are available from the Bureau. on 9 October. Acquisition of the WPHC archives marks the University of Auckland’s New Zealand The Bureau has been systematically and Pacific Collection, which already has a fine microfilming the correspondence, 1892-1919, of collection of Pacific islands official publications, J T Arundel & Co, the Pacific Islands Co Ltd and as one of the strongest Pacific research the Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd — the resource centres outside of Hawai’i. Official predecessor companies of the British Phosphate reports on the transfer are included in this issue Commissioners. This is a joint project being of Pambu. The Bureau was very pleased to undertaken with the National Archives of receive a visit from Heather Yasamee on her Australia which holds the original records in way back to London from Auckland. Melbourne. The records document trading Pambu, November 2002 operations and the early years of the guano councils in Fiji, Vanuatu, PNG, Solomon Islands, trade. Professor Barrie Macdonald commented Tonga and Samoa. A complementary set of that he would put the PIC material along side the reports on Pacific trade unions, 1981-1997, early Burns Philp reports, like those by Frederick gathered by Alan Matheson, International Officer Wallin on the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Groups with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, has (see Buckley and Klugman, South Pacific also been microfilmed by the Bureau. Focus), as being of general interest and not just The PMB Management Committee met in relevant to the firm itself. The Bureau is now Auckland in February and again in Canberra in about half-way through the project having September. Among other things the possibility of microfilmed the companies’ London and an increase in PMB subscriptions was Australian Office correspondence to 1909. The discussed without resolution at both meetings. next stage will focus on correspondence from As the rate of subscription has not been the companies’ agents in Nauru and Ocean adjusted for ten years, the Bureau is now Island (Banaba). dependent on sales of microfilm to meet its The Bureau has just completed arrangement recurrent costs. The matter will be discussed of a second batch of Joan Herlihy’s collection of again at the Management Committee meeting to reports and related documents on the Solomon be held in Apia next month. Islands. The reports, dating from 1945 till the A model Nauruan canoe was presented to early 1980s, document many aspects of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau in the late 1960s Solomon Islands economic and political by the heirs of the late Mrs Dorothea Garsia, development including employment, agriculture, who died in Canberra in May 1968. Mrs Garsia shipping and other transport, communications, was the widow of Commander Rupert C. Garsia, cooperatives and trade unions, but they focus on Administrator of Nauru from 1933 to 1938. constitutional development at all levels of Commander Garsia died in 1954. national, provincial and local government. As far as is known, the Nauruans have not Professor Hank Nelson has lent the Bureau a made canoes of the type modelled since before nice set of United Nations Trusteeship Council World War II. However, examples of this type Reports of Visiting Missions to Trust Territories are to be found in the Horniman Museum, in the Pacific, mainly New Guinea, 1950-1971, London, and the Museum of Völkerkunde, which the Bureau has microfilmed. Hamburg. Pamela Swadling arranged with Ottmar The model had become dilapidated over the Maier for his Chimbu stone-tool data-sheets to years while on display in the Coombs Building. be microfilmed by the Bureau. In the period Dorothy McIntosh, the Administrator in the 1958-63 Mr Maier, who was a lay missionary Division of Pacific and Asian History, sent the builder with the Divine Word Mission, collected canoe to the University of Canberra’s 234 stone tools in the Chimbu Province Conservation of Cultural Materials Program for documenting them in detail, including restoration. A student, Stacey Hargraves, photographs of the stone implements and the cleaned decades of dust from the pandanus sail, people who sold/gave them to Mr Maier. The wove patches for it, mended the rigging, raised collection was eventually sold to the Städtische the mast, and lashed the outrigger and boom Museum für Völkerkunde in Frankfurt. Robin which had come adrift. It took many hours of Hide commented that the datasheets are a nice pains-taking work under the supervision of her window on the process of artefact collection by a lecturer, Beata Tworek-Matuszkiewicz. The lay missionary at that time (and why the Chimbu result is a wonderfully restored Nauruan canoe were so willing to dispose of them). which will find an honourable place in the The South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Coombs Building, properly protected in a glass Trade Unions (SPOCTU) held its inaugural conference in Suva in 1990. A wing of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Asia-Pacific Regional Organisation, SPOCTU operated out of Brisbane, holding biennial conferences and many training sessions in the Pacific islands till it was wound- up in 1999. With the help of the PMB, the SPOCTU records were transferred to the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the ANU. The Bureau has now begun microfilming parts of the SPOCTU archives focusing on steering committee and conference minutes and related papers and files on its affiliated trade union peak
2 Pambu, November 2002 case. University of Hawaii in comprehensiveness, and together provide a draw card for researchers. The prospect of the transfer of the Western Pacific Archive has already sparked a lot of The Conservation of Cultural Materials interest among researchers, both in New Program is less likely to sail onward. The Zealand and abroad. University of Canberra has withdrawn support for the course on the grounds that it is too The transfer is the result of several years of expensive. Unfortunately there are no other negotiation, review and physical preparation, specialist courses for cultural materials including substantial conservation work, by the conservators in Australia. If the Program does UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The fold the long-term effect on heritage materials in Foreign and Commonwealth Office has recently Australia will be devastating. published a commemorative history of the archive, tracing the origins and development of Ewan Maidment the Western Pacific High Commission and reproducing a selection of documents. PMB ExecutiveNauruan canoe Officer model. Photograph by Jude NovemberShanahan 2002 "Much of the value of an archive lies in the ------use that can be made of it," says Heather Yasamee from the Foreign and Commonwealth Western Pacific High Commission Office, who will present the archive to the University. Archives Arrive in Auckland "The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's University of Auckland press release, 10 Oct 2002. transfer of the Western Pacific Archive and associated collections to The University of Three container loads of Western Pacific history Auckland is designed to make this historic were returned to the region on 9 October when archive more readily available for researchers in the British Government formally transferred its the region to use and enjoy." unique and extensive Western Pacific Archive to "By returning this archive to the Pacific the University of Auckland. region, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is The Western Pacific Archive captures a returning part of the region's history." century's worth of the life and times of the Western Pacific Islanders through unique At 600 linear metres, most of the archive will records, photographs, maps and other be housed in a commercial storage facility, but memorabilia covering the period 1877-1978. The access to the materials will be provided in the collection is of great importance because of the Special Collections reading room, part of the light it sheds on indigenous communities and University's General Library refurbishment. colonial policy over a long period. It is an In 1976, Bruce T. Burne, then Archivist of the invaluable record of a unique period in the Western Pacific Archive, wrote: "The records development of the region. form... an entire and integrated whole. As such, VIPs at the ceremony included Heather not only must they be invaluable and of prime Yasamee of the Foreign and Commonwealth interest to the Governments of the region, but Office, the British High Commissioner, His they also constitute by far the most important Excellency Mr Richard Fell, Mr Stephen Turner depository of historical and other information in (Consul-General), and Dr John Hood, Vice- the entire Pacific region, covering as they do the Chancellor. major part of the South Seas inhabited by a wide variety of Polynesians, Micronesians and "Pacific researchers over the years have Melanesians." experienced frustration trying to access this material, and since much of the relevant "To historians, anthropologists, political research is conducted in this region, there are scientists, demographers and other social obvious geographical advantages in locating the scientists the value of the documentation they archive in Auckland," says Stephen Innes, contain is incalculable..." Special Collections Librarian at the University. Archive Contact: Stephen Innes Special The acquisition reflects and reinforces the Collections Librarian General Library / Te University's strength as a centre for Pacific Herenga Matauranga Whanui research, which has already seen the creation of University of Auckland the Centre for Pacific Studies in 1990 and the email: [email protected] Fale Pasifika, currently under development. The archive is complemented by the other Further Notes: Pacific resources of the New Zealand and The bulk of the records belong to the Western Pacific Collection and Special Collections at the Pacific High Commission collection, which University. These are second only to the documents the daily routine business between
3 Pambu, November 2002 the High Commissioner and his staff. It Pitcairn (PIT). For the GEIC and BSIP, the encompasses the full span of daily life in the collection contains virtually the only copies of High Commission, covering the social, political, correspondence with the High Commission up to economic, military, diplomatic, judicial and 1942, the records of the two resident administrative aspects of the Commission's Commissioners having been almost totally business and the territories under its jurisdiction. destroyed during the Japanese invasion and In addition, the records of the British Agent occupation in the Second World War. and Consul in Tonga (BCT) and the New As the High Commissioner's responsibilities Hebrides British Service (NHBS) have also been dwindled with the progress of the colonial transferred to Auckland, with the kind agreement territories to independence, the Western Pacific of the governments of Tonga and Vanuatu. High Commission became increasingly The NHBS collection contains the redundant and in 1978 the Western Pacific correspondence of the Resident Commissioner Archive itself closed. The records of the Gilbert with his District Agents and the High and Ellice Islands were sent to Tarawa (Kiribati) Commission itself. The BCT files reflect the and Funafuti (Tuvalu); those of the British unusual nature of Britain's relationship with Solomon Islands Protectorate were sent to Tonga, which was never a formal colony. Honiara; and those of the Western Pacific High Commission were sent to London together with The archive also includes papers relating to records relating to Pitcairn, Tonga and the New Pitcairn, which continues to be an Overseas Hebrides. It is these records that will be handed Territory of the United Kingdom. A copy set of to The University of Auckland on 9 October. Pitcairn papers in the Western Pacific High Commission files is therefore kept in London, Electronic photos of some of the documents together with a separate collection of Pitcairn are available on request. territorial records. ~~~~~ Rose Holley BA (Hons) ALA The history of the Western Pacific Archive is Digital Projects Librarian inextricably intertwined with that of the region it Digital Services documents. The Western Pacific High General Library, University of Auckland. Commission was established by Order in Council in 1877. For the first 75 years of its * * * existence it was located in Fiji, where the posts of High Commissioner and Governor of Fiji were held conjointly. Comment on GEIC Archives A further Order in Council in 1893 redefined by Richard Overy the High Commissioner's jurisdiction, limiting it to territories under British control. By 1900 his Extract from message sent to Stephen Innes, responsibilities comprised the Solomon Islands, University of Auckland, following the release of a the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the New Hebrides, press statement on the WPHC Records: Tonga and Pitcairn. _____ In 1952 the posts of High Commissioner and The press release says "The records of the Governor of Fiji were separated and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands were sent to Tarawa Western Pacific High Commission moved to (Kiribati)and Funafuti (Tuvalu)". Honiara (where the High Commissioner became While this is not totally inaccurate, it might concurrently Governor of the British Solomon mislead some into thinking that the records now Islands Protectorate). The earlier records with the University of Auckland do not contain remained in Suva where they were administered records for the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands as part of the newly created Central Archives of (now Kiribati and Tuvalu respectively). The Fiji and the Western Pacific. records which were sent to Tarawa and Funafuti When Fiji became independent in 1970, the in late 1978 were the internal administrative Fijian records were transferred to its new territorial records of the Resident Commissioner government and the Central Archives were (later Governor) of the Gilbert Islands & the dissolved. The remaining collections formed the Ellice Islands. These were records that had newly established Western Pacific Archive. been sent from the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands in the 1960s and 1970s for safe-keeping At this time the archive comprised the files of and for lack of suitable local facilities.The the High Commission itself, together with records generally post-dated WWII though there records relating to the New Hebrides British were a very few items for the period from 1893 Service (NHBS), the British Solomon Islands to about 1940. I happen to know this because I Protectorate (BSIP), the Gilbert and Ellice was the Gilbert Islands Archivist and it was I Islands Colony (GEIC), the British Agent (later who went to Suva (while Bruce Burne was still Commissioner and Consul) of Tonga (BCT) and Archivist) from Tarawa in 1977 for the purpose
4 Pambu, November 2002 of examining, identifying, and noting Gilbert and in later histories of the Mission. Ellice Islands records. The GI records were sent The Roman Catholic Mission, almost to me at Tarawa in 1978. contemporary with Geddie (1848) lapsed and The WPHC records still contain the vastly was recommenced later. A recent volume greater volume of information relating to the provides a paperback record (by M. Monnier). Gilbert Islands Protectorate (1893-1916), the Of the 113 files (all numbered) I note below Gilbert, Ellice and Union Islands Protectorate - such as relate to Vanuatu. They comprise later Colony (1916-1922), and the Gilbert & miscellaneous information, articles and corres- Ellice Islands Colony (1922 - c1976). Neither pondence – some useful, some fragmentary: Kiribati nor Tuvalu has ever had any records 26 The John Geddie diaries (1848-1872) – (not even microfilm copies of those records photocopies of originals. filmed - up to about 1922 I think) of WPHC material relating to those territories and their 27 The Geddies on Aneityum (1848-1892). interests. 28 The Rev. John and Jessie Inglis (Aneityum In light of the above, I suggest there is a 1852-1872). need to make clearer the distinction between 29 Futuna: Rev. Dr Wm Gunn and Mrs Gunn what was sent to Tarawa and Funafuti in 1978 (1881-1917) and photocopies of his two (their own internally created records only) and books. what remained in Suva as part of the Western 30 Rev. Dr John G. Paton; Tanna 1858-1862, Pacific Archives holdings. and Aniwa, 1868-1881, and in Australia. By way of additional comment that it is sad that 31 Tanna: Houlton Forlong and independent nobody seems to have though fit to at least missionary–traders (1894-1908). invite Bruce Burne (living in Sydney) along to the 32 East Tanna: Rev. Wm Gray and Mrs Gray hand-over ceremony. Bruce fought long and (1882-1894). PMB have microfilms. Rev. hard for preservation of the integrity of the Dr Thomson Macmillan and Mrs Macmillan collection, and for its need to remain in the (1896-1936). Pacific region. Of his predecessors, Dorothy Crozier died not too long ago in Australia, Ian 33 West Tanna: Rev. F.H.L. Paton and Mrs Diamond still lives in Australia in retirement, and Paton (1896-1902); Rev. Dr J. Campbell Bruce's only successor, acting Archivist Patrick Nicholson and Mrs Micholson (1903-1917). MacDonald (former Colonial Secretary in Fiji) 34 Nguna, N. Efate: Rev. Peter Milne and Mrs died quite some time ago. Milne (1869-1924). His valuable diaries in * * * the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin. Peter Milne of Nguna. Reverend J. Graham Miller’s Vanatu Photocopies of pages of diary (1889-1905) Files in this file. 35 Tongoa and Shepherd Islands (from 1875): My Vanuatu missionary library is deposited, Milne, Michelsen, Nottage, Miller. along with my theological library, with the NSW 36 Tongoa: miscellaneous (1919-1947). Presbyterian Theological Centre, 37 Epi (north): Tasmanian Mission. W. Epi 77 Shaftesbury Road, Burwood, NSW 2134; (1882-1930): Rev. R.M. Fraser, T.E. Riddle, Phone (02) 9744.1977; Fax: (02) 9744.5970: J.B. Weir. Email
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(i) Alexander Morton (ii) Fred J. Paton. REV ARTHUR CHIGNELL. Anglican 46 Malekula (3) Uripio and Lambubu; Wala and missionary, 21 years in Papua. SAM has N. Malekula; South West Bay. materials from 1908. 47 Malo and Tutuba (1887-1952): J.D. Landels, MILTON J LEWIS. Medical Assistant in D.L. Paterson, Dr Ewen Mackenzie, Stewart, PNG. SAM has his register journal of E.L. Sykes. collecting in PNG and his diary of a medical 48 Santo (1) Tangoa and S. Santo (1887): Dr patrol in 1962. Joseph Annand; Cape Lisburu and Tasiriki JOHN WOMERSLEY. Director Lae (1896): Rev. F.G. Bowie, J.W.P. Gillan. Herbarium after WWII. SAM has photos and 49 Santo (2) N.W. Santo-Nogugu: Rev. J. Noble some objects. Maybe reports with his family. Mackenzie (1895-1909). CAPT. A J HUNTER. Australian 50 Santo (3) and see his biography in library, Expeditionary Forces WWI: "Experiences of Mackenzie, Man of Mission, by his daughter a District Officer in Mandated Territory of Dr Helen Mackenzie. New Guinea", 28pp; "Across the Bismark Mountains to the Interior of New Guinea, 51 Santo (4): miscellaneous material on N.W. 1930-1931" (which includes photographs). Santo. SAM has a big collection of objects which 52 Santo (5) Big Bay – N. Santo (1896 on): Dr Capt. Hunter collected, mainly from the Sandilands, C.E. Yates, W. Mackay, W. Sepik Coast. Anderson. Also Hog Harbour, East Santo (1898 on): Dr J.T. Bowie, Dr Ewen Fran Zilio, SA Museum Archivist, kindly sent the Mackenzie, W. Anderson. Bureau the following list of the Museum’s 53 Santo (6): Teachers’ Training Institute registered Pacific archives, though it is far from Tangoa, S. Santo: Student treks into inland complete. Ms Zilio noted that the collections Santo with J.G. Miller 1947, 1948; Report mainly include glass negatives. on Naked Cult to Journal of Polynesian ASHWORTH (AA 9) Photos of prehistoric Society 1948. stone objects from the Minj Wahgi Valley in 54 Sir John Ferguson’s, A Bibliography of the the possession of James Fenton, District New Hebrides and History of the Mission Officer for Minj. Press. GEORGE BLYTH (AA 33) Raw data from 55 R.T.E. Latham’s thesis (Melbourne tests given to NG people to test intelligence University); The New Hebrides & medical phenomema. Correspondence Condominium, 1930; Correspondence re with Tindale re NG phonetics, currency, Edward Jacomb (lawyer in Vila) with W.E. customs, grammar etc. Also includes Stober. ethnographic specimens sent to SAM. Rev. J. Graham Miller L F BOWDEN (AA 35) Glass negs - people August 2002 in Maprik Village, Wewak, NG. * * * M BOYCE (AA 38) Glass negs - shell trumpets from NG. Pacific Islands Archives at the South FREUND (AA 63) Glass neg of man Australian Museum wearing a bark cloth tape, Kukukuku tribe, NG. (Freund photos and artefact collection The Bureau microfilmed the Samoan Journal of written up by P. Fitzpatrick in Records of the the Rev. E G Neil at the South Australian South Australian Museum (1999) 31,2:181- Museum in March this year. Barry Craig, the 214). Museum’s Curator of Foreign Ethnology, helped D S DAVIDSON (AA 68) Glass negs - set up that project and also guided the Bureau to various arts & crafts including shields, the pre-War Sepik patrol reports of Kenneth spears, clubs & boomerangs. Thomas held by his daughter, Mrs Helen Inglis, at Victor Harbor. Barry also mentioned that the R C ELSMORE (AA 88) Glass negs - Museum holds other Pacific archives, mainly hidden village & huts. relating to collectors, including: REV FELLOWES (AA 89) Glass negs - BARTLETT PAPERS. Methodist missionary people in Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands photo Massim area. Papers uncatalogued. Son album. has some more material. FREUND (AA 100) Glass negs and photo DRAPER. Baptist missionary. Cultural notes album. (See Freund above.) Maprik. Dictionary of Tiom language. Papers GUISE (AA 117) Glass negs - Lakatoi, girls uncatalogued. dancing.
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FATHER GUIVARCH (AA 118) Glass negs the Department of External Territories in - fishing at Orokolo Crk, man from Papuan Canberra until October 1945, when he returned mountain tribe. to Port Moresby and took up the post of senior GUNNARSSON HAGMAN (AA 119) Glass District Magistrate until he retired through ill negs - people and activities. health in 1948. (Provided by Peter R. Watkins, son of the above.) HUNTER (AA 145) Glass negs and film negs – Bismarck. Patrol Report No.12 of 1933/34: Report of Patrol by A. E. Watkins to Normanby Island A note on Telefomin records. Not long after and Sanaroa Island, 14 Dec 1933-26 Jan the PMB’s visit to the South Australian Museum 1934. Barry Craig left on a fieldtrip to Telefomin and Patrol Report No.13 of 1933/34: Report of elsewhere in New Guinea. Joel Robbins of Patrol to South East Coast District, 25 Feb- UCSD had used administration records in the 28 Mar 1934. Telefomin sub-district office about 10 years ago. Patrol Report No.17 of 1933/34: Report of Barry checked whether the records were still Patrol by A E Watkins to Goodenough there, but was unable to locate them. A new Island, 24 May-27 Jun 1934. office has been built and the old building is empty. Patrol Report No.6 of 1934/35: Report of Patrol by A E Watkins to Mount Yule Dist., * * * 13-28 Dec 1934.
Bud Watkins’ Papuan Patrol Reports Patrol Report No.7 of 1934/35: Report of Patrol by A E Watkins to the Kanosia District, 5-12 Jan 1935. Further to Nancy Lutton’s article on New Guinea patrol reports in the last issue of Pambu, readers Patrol Report No. 5 of 1934/35: Report of might be interested to note that the Bureau has Patrol by A E Watkins from Kairuku to microfilmed a number of pre-War Papuan patrol Goilala Police Camp, 23 Jan-9 Feb 1935. reports. For example, Mr Peter Watkins of Patrol Report No.6 of 1934/35: Report of Nerang in Queensland, had collected his Patrol by A E Watkins to Vetapu Valley, 27 father’s Papuan reports and allowed the Bureau Feb-22 Mar 1935. to microfilm them a few years ago. Report of Patrol to Karuama (Mt. Yule) Alwyn Edward Watkins went to Papua to District by R G Speedie and A E Watkins, 4 serve as a Patrol Officer under the Lieutenant Apr-26 May 1935. Governorship of Sir Hubert Murray at the age of Report of Patrol by A E Watkins from Goilala 21, in 1929. Initially, he was sent to work in and Police Camp to Kairuku, 3-14 Jun 1935. around the district and islands of the eastern end of the Territory. Later, he served for some Patrol report No.1 of 1935/36: Report of time with Ronald Gordon Speedie and assisted Patrol by A E Watkins, 19 Jun-6 Jul 1935. in the opening up of the Goilala district, north Patrol Report No.1 of 1935/36: Report of west of Port Moresby. With Speedie, he made Patrol by A E Watkins to Goilala Police the first European ascent of Mount Yule in May Camp, 9 Jul-2 Sep 1935. of 1935. On various furloughs to Australia, Bud PMB 1143 attended Sydney University and studied law, WATKINS, Alwyn Edward (1908-1988) tropical medicine and, under Professor A. P. Patrol Reports,1934-1935 Elkin, anthropology. From late 1936 until late 1 reel; 35mm microfilm 1940, Bud was District Officer successively at Available for reference Rigo, Abau Island, Samarai Island and Buna before returning to Port Moresby as a * * * Magistrate. During several of his patrols as a District Officer, Bud also escorted a number of AusAid Library and AusAid Project visiting anthropologists and medical figures, Reports including Dr. Margaret Mead and Dr. Frederick
Clements. Further to the report in the May 2001 Pambu the During World War II Watkins joined the Army, AusAid Library has now been incorporated into serving in his administrative post each morning AusAid’s Information and Research Services and training as a soldier each afternoon. Unit, formerly the Statistics Unit. There is no However, he took seriously ill and was shipped longer any public access to the library. The south to Australia early in 1942. After about reports on Australian overseas aid projects, eighteen months of recuperation, he served with consisting of several thousand items, have been
7 Pambu, November 2002 transferred to off-site storage. Consideration is being given to creating electronic access to the NLA Digitising Pictorial Material in reports, but there is no time frame for their digitisation. At the moment there in no outside the Hurley and Spencer Collections access to the reports. Erica Ryan has let the Bureau know that pictorial material in the papers of Frank Hurley and of * * * Margaret and Terrence Spencer have been digitised by the Pictorial Section of the National Library of Australia. The National Library embarked upon its major digitisation project in August 2001 in an attempt to provide greater access to the National Library’s wide and diverse collection. The project is described at http://www.nla.gov.au/digital/program.html The pictures are available online via the Pictures Catalogue: http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/. The National Library has digitised more than 10,000 negatives taken by Frank Hurley, explorer, photographer and pioneer film- producer (1885-1962), between 1911 and 1962. About 100 of them document his travels in New Guinea. The Bureau microfilmed Hurley papers (PMB 916) relating to his visit to the Western District of Papua in 1923 where he made the film Pearls and Savages. The Library has also digitised the collection of about 1,200 images 35mm slides (mainly colour) taken by Dr Terence and Dr Margaret Spencer during the course of their work in the investigation and control of malaria for the Malaria Control Service of the Department of Public Health of Papua New Guinea between 1953 and 1978: Port Moresby, 1953; the Wahgi Valley (Western Highlands of New Guinea), 1954-1955; the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua, 1956-1959; the New Guinea Islands including Tasmans and Mortlocks, 1960-1961; Bougainville Island, 1972; Port Moresby, 1975- 1978. Photographs include landscapes, village life, ceremonies and patrol work. Dr. Margaret Spencer, an entomologist, and Dr Terence Spencer, a malariologist, worked in epidemiological studies, specifically on anopheline fauna and malaria control in Papua New Guinea from the 1950s to 1978. The Bureau organised and microfilmed Dr Spencer’s diaries, correspondence, patrol records and other papers at PMB 1146.
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Archives Projects at the Mekanesian Goroka, EHP, Papua New Guinea Institute, Goroka, PNG Susan Cochrane’s Contemporary At the Melanesian Institute in Goroka we have a Pacific Art Archives paper clippings project in which, starting around 1998, we go through the two PNG daily Dr Susan Cochrane, a noted Australian newspapers: The Post-Courier, and the researcher and writer on Pacific Islander and National, and mark any articles of social- Australian Aboriginal artworks, has transferred economic, socio-religious, or socio-political some of her research materials to the Bureau, interest. Using the software “Ask Sam” we have on a temporary basis, for safe keeping. a template into which a typist enters the Dr Cochrane has agreed to make the papers publication details of each entry. We are available to researchers who have her written presuming that key words or phrases will appear permission. No photographs or slides may be in either the title or the first and last paragraph, reproduced without Dr Cochrane’s permission. so we have the typist enter those as they appear The archives consists of 26 boxes, labelled in the paper. The articles are then photocopied as follows: and filed. We now have over 3,000 entries and Pacific Arts Association; International with “Ask Sam” it is a relatively simply matter of Symposium SA Museum; Research essay searching for articles relevant to any particular Museum of Victoria. search topic. Oceanic Arts course material; Waigani Enga Life Testimony’s Project, PNG. Seminar UPNG 1988; Exhibition proposals. At the Melanesian Institute, Goroka, I have a PNG Arts Advisers P/L; Pacific Link; Agence project whereby my research assistant in the de Developpement de la Culture Kanak. Enga Province interviews people, mostly elderly Essays, articles, Asia Pacific Triennial 1996 people about their lives and what were the most & 1999. significant moments in their lives. Since the Luk Luk Gen (Look Again) Touring project is identified with the Catholic church, Exhibition; PNG Contemporary Art 1989-92. often the significant moments relate to their Festival of Pacific Arts. Christian lives, however themes of general Boomalli “Aboriginal Design Exhibition interest often occur, particularly how people deal 1988”; Aboriginal Art ephemera; Aboriginal with conflictual situations such as tribal warfare Art course materials; reviews. or husbands entering into polygamous Book Mss.; Béréfava (English and French); relationships. The interviews are transcribed Aboriginal Art in the Australian Museum. from tape into exercise books, either in the Susan Cochrane MA (Hons.) thesis. original Enga language or translated into Susan Cochrane PhD thesis. Melanesian Pidgin. Then we have entered the UNESCO Inventory Pacific Artefacts. material from the exercise books onto computer. Susan Cochrane photo albums. So far, using Microsoft Word, we have entered Duplicate slides and documentation of 5,000 hand-written pages onto the computer, Cochrane PNG Archive – Percival and which amounts to about 1,000 single spaced Renata Cochrane. Originals at Michael Birt pages on the computer. Each of the 60 books Library, University of Wollongong. have been entered as a separate file and now I Australian Indigenous Cultural Network am looking for a suitable search program to (AICN); Museums/ Art galleries website; search for words or expressions through Aboriginal Collections drafts. multiple files. Unfortunately using Microsoft “Shrines”, Olympic Arts Festival 2000. Word one has to go through the laborious Photocopies for research. process in Windows Explorer of identifying which files contain a word or phrase and then Photos PNG, New Caledonia 1995-1996. opening each file identified so as to use “find” to Photos Aboriginal Art. locate the word or phrase itself in the Press books, reviews, references, shrines, file/document. CCT, etc. 1999-2000. Family photo albums and Pacific. The purpose of the exercise is to create a data-base of life histories of Enga people, some Unlabelled. Field notebooks; New of whom have died already since the interviews Caledonia, CCT, Expos, Clippings; PNG were recorded, and secondly to use the material photos; slides in boxes; ephemera; to produce some books on Enga oral history. If newsletters. I can locate a suitable search program to search Unlabelled. Field notebooks, diaries, video multiple files this will greatly facilitate the cassettes. searching and writing. Aboriginal art catalogues and articles. Unlabelled. Mwà Véé. Loose copies and Philip Gibbs, Melanesian Institute, PO Box 571,
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bound volumes. Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Unlabelled. Pacific art books. Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu Susan’s tapa dress. For further information, contact PARBICA New Guide to Pacific National officer Kathryn Dan at [email protected]. Archives and Records Laws Order the Compendium from: PARBICA publications, c/o National Archives of Australia, The first detailed and comprehensive guide to PO Box 7425, Canberra Business Centre, ACT archives and records laws throughout the Pacific 2610, Australia. Fax: +612 6212 3650. Region has been published by the Pacific * * * Regional branch of International Council on Archives (PARBICA). From American Samoa to Vanuatu, and The Fiji Oral History Project including New Zealand and Australia, the Part 1: publication contains the legislation currently in use in twenty Pacific nations, states and Part-Europeans and Europeans. territories. These range in origin from Hawaii's 1905 Law on Public Archives and Disposal of An audio oral history project to collect and Records to the Bill passed into law in 2001 conserve the memoirs and family histories of establishing the Guam Archives. senior members of Fiji's part-European and European community The 250-page guide, the PARBICA
Compendium of Pacific Archives Legislation, was compiled and edited by Nancy Lutton, the Outline of the Project Chief Archivist of the National Archives and Public Records Service of Papua New Guinea Given Fiji's prominent position as one of the from 1989 to 1992. She was Editor of the most politically and economically significant countries in the South-West Pacific through the Australian Society of Archivists’ journal Archives th th st and Manuscripts from 1982 to 1987. The 19 , 20 and 21 centuries, and its long- PARBICA compendium was published in standing links with Australian, British, American, Canberra in May and costs NZ$30. and New Zealand colonial and post-colonial history, this project conserves a most valuable Outgoing General Secretary of PARBICA, archive of Fiji’s anecdotal history which has not Evelyn Wareham, recommended the until now been examined in such breadth. Compendium as ”a comprehensive source for archivists and legislators preparing, reviewing or Above all, the recorded stories of these studying archives legislation, and for students citizens of Fiji, which give a fresh and immediate and scholars analysing archival frameworks in account both of their daily lives and of the the Pacific region”. seminal events that shaped their nation from circa 1900 to 1988, comprise a significant body Mr Setareki Tale, PARBICA's President and of oral history that has been collected for the National Archivist of Fiji, said the works provided peoples of Fiji, for posterity. valuable source material for those “without a legal infrastructure for public records, for those This is because nations are built and shaped that are planning on reviewing their legislation, by the history their people share - so the stories and of course for those interested in the legal told by the Fiji Oral History interviewees are part and administrative problems involved in the care of the common inheritance of all the citizens of of archives”. Fiji. The Compendium consists of fact sheets on This oral history audio media project, called each nation, state and territory providing insight the Fiji Oral History Project Part 1: Part- into their constitutional status, geography, Europeans and Europeans, comprises 28 taped population, and administrative history that interviews with 26 senior members of these comprise the context for the various statutes. communities living in Fiji and Australia. The Information on the current state of preparations interviews were conducted from 1998 to 1999. for recordkeeping legislation in a further three They trace the history of a number of Part- Pacific countries, Samoa, Nauru and Tonga, is European and European families in Fiji through also included. the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning with the PARBICA member countries and states are first arrival of their European ancestors. A fresh American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, and vibrant collection of many previously un- Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, recorded personal memoirs, as well as family French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, stories passed down the generations, it is a Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New significant new contribution to the social history Zealand, Niue, Northern Marianas, Palau, and intangible heritage of Fiji - and the South
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Pacific region. Author of the Project The project has been conducted by Ms Marsali Mackinnon, an experienced Australian journalist with wide knowledge of the history of Fiji's Part-European and European community, and an extensive range of personal contacts within that community. Presentation of the Oral History Collection to the University of the South Pacific Library From the very beginning, it was essential for the integrity of the project that the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific Library holds a copy of the oral history collection. As a result of discussions with the USP Library by Ms Mackinnon and Canberra-based project partner the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (within the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University) arrangements were made to formally present a copy of the collection to the USP Library in December 2002. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau became a major project partner in 2001, when it accepted the oral history into its official archives. Through an arrangement between the PMB and its network of partner institutions in Australia and overseas, copies of the collection on CD have also being sent to the Yale University Library, the Melanesia Resource center at the University of California San Diego, the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii, the University of Auckland Library, the Turnbull Library, the Mitchell Library, the National Library of Australia and the Australian National University Library. A set of the CDs will also be lodged with the Fiji Museum, an original partner in the project. The Role of the Fiji Museum Ms Mackinnon gratefully thanks and acknowledges the Museum of Fiji for the major role it played in supporting the project in 1998- 1999. In recognition of this role, the Museum is named as the project collaborator on all CDs and transcripts of the project. Public Access to the Collection All public access to the collection, in both Australian and overseas archives, is embargoed for 4 years (from April 2001 to January 2005). The Interviewees Those interviewed comprised: Selected members of Fiji’s Part-European and European community aged 60 and above, particularly those still living in Fiji. In addition, there were three other interviewees - the Tui Levuka, Mr Henry Sahai of Levuka, and Mr Bill (WWA) Miller, a retired District Officer with the former British colonial administration. Interviews were conducted in
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Suva and district (including with residents of video-taped two of the Levuka interviews – with Suva's Pearce Home for the Elderly); the Tui Levuka, and with long-time local resident Levuka (Ovalau); Savu Savu (Vanua Levu); Mr Henry Sahai. The oral histories collected in the Korolevu area of Viti Levu’s "Coral Levuka were designed to provide an “intangible Coast"; and Lautoka. Interviews were also heritage” resource to support an application by conducted in Australia and New Zealand. Fiji to the World Heritage Committee for Levuka/ Around half the interviewees were men, and the Island of Ovalau to be declared a World half women; and Part-Europeans and Heritage Site. Europeans are represented in the same Corporate and Organisational Sponsors equal proportion. The project sponsors have demonstrated Above all, the spoken memories in this through their support for this project that they project belong to the people who were are committed to supporting the preservation of interviewed, and to their families. It will never be Fiji's historical heritage, to the real long-term possible to thank and honour the participants benefit of the Fiji community. The author of the enough. project gratefully recognizes the generous In chronological order of interview, the support, encouragement and assistance of the participants are: following organizations: Lady Moira Hedstrom (nee Deitrich) UNESCO’s Office for the Pacific based in The late Hubert “Jumbo” Sabben Samoa; Mr Bill (W.W.A) Miller The Australian Government, through the Mrs Dorothy Walker (Order of Fiji) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Mrs Maureen Southwick (nee Storck) former Australia-South Pacific Cultures Mr Henry Sahai Fund; The Tui Levuka Air Pacific; Mr George Gibson Air Fiji; Mr William Moses Telecom Fiji; The late Mrs Dora Patterson Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian The late Captain Fred Vollmer National University; Mrs Nicky Yoshida (nee Ashley) The Museum of Fiji; Mrs Bertha Wendt National Library of Australia; Ms Alice Mahabir The Toka Toka Hotel, Nadi, Fiji; Sir Len Usher The Hot Springs Hotel, Savu Savu, Fiji; The late George Mitchell "Pa" Hazelman The Royal Hotel, Levuka, Fiji. Mr Thomas Fenton In addition, many individual people in Fiji, Mrs Jess Jackson (nee Hibbs) Australia and New Zealand provided essential Mrs Betty Simpson (nee Ashley) support and encouragement to the project. Mrs Lema Low (nee Price)
Mr Rodney Acraman
Mr Daryl Tarte
Mrs Judy Zundel (nee Ferrier-Watson) The late Sir David Ragg Mr Don Burness The Hon. the late Mr Bill Clark (Order of Fiji). Rhys Richards, “Intangible Heritage” resource Honolulu: Centre of Trans-Pacific Trade. The interview segment of the project in Fiji Shipping Arrivals and Departures 1820-1840, (January-April 1999) provided unique opportunities for Ms Mackinnon to work with a Published jointly by the Hawaiian Historical small team of Fiji Museum researchers to Society and the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. research a significant aspect of Fiji’s history, and to assist in recording and preserving this history. Copies are available from the Bureau for The project was designed to complement the AU$30.00, plus postage. Fiji Museum's own archival and conservation programs. For example, oral history interviews were conducted in tandem with Fiji Museum archaeological and built heritage conservation projects (in Levuka, Ovalau.) The Museum
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