Guide to the Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (as filmed by the AJCP)

HB to Beatrice Blackwood, 4 January 1928 (File B 3)

Concerning collection sent from New Guinea and asking her to lecture at Royal Geographical Society on New Guinea.

HB to Beatrice Blackwood re her expedition to Buka, 24 December 1929 - 25 March 1930 (File B 4-5)

From Rev R.H. Codrington concerning a wig collected in Solomon Islands and musical bows, 4 October 1898 (File C 2)

From Alfred Cort Haddon. Sending sketches of Fiji arrows, 27 July 1889 (File H 1)

From Clive Lord, Tasmanian Museum, Hobart, re Tasmanian archaeology, 17 September 1926 (File L 2)

From C.H. Read, British Museum, sending Tobriand objects, 26 October 1893 (File R 4)

Tasmanian implements: from shot tower. Paper by A.S. Barnes, July 1931 - 3 August 1931 (File A)

8p. and letter 3 August 1931 enclosing final part of the paper: Tasmanian chopper-scrappers from the Banwell site. 5p

Notes on Australian stone implements., 1942 - 1947 (File J)

12p. and letter 16 February 1942 from A.S. Barnes to FK re gift of Australian spear head.

Notes on Australian Boomerang 1891. St Nicholas Magazine Vol XIX November 1891. 5p. Notes on the article by F.K. 20 May 1940. 7p, 20 May 1940 (File M.2)

Letters re Australian spearheads and flint implements, 14 February 1932 - 4 March 1934 (File II A-B)

From Les Eyzies, France re showing of a film at the British Museum on Indigenous Australians in North Western Australia, 25 March 1935 (File II C)

Includes:

A.S. Barnes [Les Eyzies] to Knowles. [14 March 1935]

That A.B. has seen some films at the Anthropological Society which showed in slow motion Indigenous Australians of central Australia throwing boomerangs, 9 July 1935 (File II C)

Thanking FK for his Australian book, 15 June 1936 (File II D)

That he is returning FK his Australian book, which he found 'dealt with things not usually met with in books', 9 September 1936 (File II E)

Re FK's glass Australian points which show clear ripple-less flaking, 15 January 1937 (File II F)

Asking how FK accounts for the clear rippleless flakes on his Australian glass point when AB gets rippled flakes on glass he strikes, 19 January 1937 (File)

Sending article from Anthropological Journal on the breaking of boulders in Central Australia by Prof. Wood Jones and Dr. Campbell, 18 June 1938 (File II I)

Glad he found journal article interesting - his own theories on internal forces, 27 June 1938 (File)

Re Australian flints, 30 November 1938 (File II J)

Re FK's proposed work on boomerang, 28 May 1940 (File III B)

Re acquisition by the Pitt-Rivers Museum of Australian core, 18 June 1940 (File III B/1)

That AB has failed to make an Australian spearhead in glass, with diagram; his fears re the fall of Singapore, 12 February 1942 (File III D)

Re AB's attempt at making the spearhead, 23 February 1942 (File)

That he still cannot make an Australian spearhead, 28 February 1942 (File)

Re his findings on Australian spearhead, 9 March 1942 (File)

Re his attempts, 10 April 1942 (File)

Re Australian cores, 18 May 1942 (File)

Re Tasmanian cores, tracing, 26 May 1942 (File)

Re Tasmanian cores, 27 July 1942 (File)

That he has received a letter from H. Noone, Uni. of Adelaide, giving details of the escape of Noone's family from Malaya and of Noone's work on Aboriginal flint, 24 May 1943 (File III E)

FK, Oxford, to AB, 17 June 1946 (File III F)

re possible exchange of aboriginal implements between the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Australian Museum, Sydney arranged by McCarthy

Re the possible exchange, 25 June 1946 (File)

Re boomerang obtained by McCarthy of the Australian Museum, 26 July 1946 (File)

H. Noone, London, to FK re properties of the Australian boomerang, 3 August 1946 (File)

Re the boomerang, 6 August 1946 (File)

The spread of boomerangs, 24 August 1946 (File)

FK to AB re Noone work on Australian stone tools, n.d. (File)

Archival History

N.d. but next letter in file.

Re Noone and Australian Museum with more information on boomerangs, 19 September 1946 (File)

FK to AB re Australian spearheads, 26 October 1946 (File)

Re boomerangs, 11 October 1946 (File)

Re gifts of Australian items, 16 November 1946 (File)

Re Australian tools, 26 November 1946 (File)

Re Australian tools, 13 January 1947 (File)

Re letter from McBurney on Australian collections, 31 December 1946 (File)

H.M. Cooper, Glenelg South Aust. to AB re his collection of Kangaroo Island pebble implements, 7 January 1947 (File)

FK to AB notes on pebble implement from Kangaroo Island, 1 February 1947 (File)

Re Noone's work in Australia, 29 January 1947 (File)

Re FK's work on Aboriginal tools, 19 January 1947 (File)

On Australian tools, 1 February 1947 (File)

Re Cooper's gift of pebble tools, 4 February 1947 (File)

Archival History

Date is 4 February 1947 but a 6 has been crossed out.

Re helping Cooper and Report on Stone implements from Kangaroo Island by Knowles and Barnes. 3p, 11 March 1947 (File)

Re notes on Cooper's Australian implements, 17 March 1947 (File)

On Australian pebble tools. 6p, 28 March 1947 (File)

On his written paper on Australian tools, 13 April 1947 (File)

Re the possible exchange of specimens between the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Australian Museum, 23 May 1949 (File III G)

From Leonhard Adam, Queen's College, Melbourne University, 30 January 1943 (File 1)

A resume of his work on archaeology, and anthropology in Australia and recent developments in the field. 7p

Lecture and slide notes on the history of Sarawak and native characteristics and culture. 13p (File a)

Notes on natural history. 4p (File b)

Ethnological notes. 5p (File c)

Notes, tracings, drawings re art and decoration 25 p. 1 plate, 13 photos by C. Hose[?] (File d)