Guide to the Papers of W. E. Armstrong

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MS 6507

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Collection Summary

Creator
W. E. Armstrong
Title
Papers of W. E. Armstrong
Date Range
1921 - 1928
Collection Number
MS 6507
Extent
3.54 metres (4 MS Boxes + 1 Non-Standard MS Box + 7 Archive Boxes + 1 Folio-packet + 1 map folio)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of anthropological source material on New Guinea, fieldnotes, lecture notes, drafts of government reports, and a unique group of pictorial material relating to this field and lecture notes. Most of these research documents relate to the publication "Rossel Island: an ethnological study", 1928. The pictorial material consists of photographs, lantern glass slides, photo albums, rubbings of artifacts (weaponry, carvings, etc.) done on the islands Suan Daui - Tavala, Taufe, Rebana, Enana and Cats Cradle. Armstrong drafted government reports for the Papuan government on issues relating to anthropology; language, social organization, local currency system, education, employment and taxation.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn533709) for the access conditions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of W. E. Armstrong, National Library of Australia, MS 6507, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Item Descriptions

Series 1. Armstrong's lectures on social organization

Lecture 1 Definitions Psychological Basis (File 1) - Box 1

Lecture 2 The instincts of Man (File 1) - Box 1

Lecture 3 Suggestions, Sympathy, Imitation (File 1) - Box 1

Lecture 4 Association, Habit, The Sentiments (File 1) - Box 1

Lecture 5 Earliest Groupings and Priori (File 1) - Box 1

Lecture 6 Original Groupings (cont.) Evolutionary theory (File 1) - Box 1

Lecture 7 Kinship and family, Sibship Clan (File 2) - Box 1

Lecture 8 Possible origin of Clan, Genealogical method (File 2) - Box 1

Lecture 9 Tribe, Rivers, Theory of Group-Marriage (organised Sexual Commune) (File 2) - Box 1

Lecture 10 Marriage (File 2) - Box 1

Lecture 11 Marriage (cont.) (File 2) - Box 1

Lecture 12 Betrothal, Divorce, Functions of Relatives (File 3) - Box 1

Lecture 13 Marriage classes and section systems (File 3) - Box 1

Lecture 14 Totemism (File 3) - Box 1

Lecture 15 Totemism (2) (File 3) - Box 1

Lecture 16 Totemism (3) (File 3) - Box 1

Lecture 17 Property (File 4) - Box 1

Lecture 18 Inheritance, Exchange (File 4) - Box 1

Lecture 19 Succession, Chiefs (File 4) - Box 1

Lecture 20 The Men's House, Age - grades (File 4) - Box 1

Lecture 21 Puberty, Voluntary Groupings (File 5) - Box 1

Lecture 22 Fraternities and Secret Societies (File 5) - Box 1

Lecture 23 Origin of Secret Societies (File 5) - Box 1

Lecture 24 Migrations in Melanesia (File 6) - Box 1

Lecture 25 Contact, Interaction, Heliolithic Culture (File 6) - Box 1

Lecture 26 Heliolithic Culture (cont.) (File 6) - Box 1

Handwritten Lecture on Government (File 6) - Box 1

Handwritten Lecture on Social Organization (File 6) - Box 1

Miscellaneous (File 7) - Box 1

Pigon's Economics (File 7) - Box 1

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: Social (File 8) - Box 1

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: Life Industry (File 9) - Box 1

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: Ceremonial (File 10) - Box 1

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: General (File 11) - Box 2

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: Mythology (File 12) - Box 2

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: Art and Science (File 13) - Box 2

Suau - Daui - Towala field notes: Summaries etc (File 14) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. (Genealogies, etc.) (File 15) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Maps, Districts (a) original (File 16) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Physical (a) original (File 17) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Physical (a) original (File 18) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Physical (a) original (File 19) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Physical (a) original (File 20) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Language (a) original (File 21) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Language (a) original (File 22) - Box 2

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Mal.Cult. Pract.Knowl.(a) original (File 23) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Games, Cats Cradle, Songs and Dances (a) original (File 24) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel Is. Money, General Counting Trade (a) original (File 25) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel VIII. Marriage, Prostitutes, Sex, Birth (a) original (File 26) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel IX. Pig feast, Cannibalism. Payment Ritual. (a) original (File 27) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel X. Death Ritual. Land of Death (a) original (File 28) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel XI. General Origins. Myths of Wonajo etc. (a) original (File 29) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel XII. The Yabas (and origins) (a) original (File 30) - Box 3

Rossel field notes: Rossel XIII. Sorcery. Other magic (a) original. Omens, Evil things (File 31) - Box 3

Maps of Rossel Island (File 32) - Box 3

Genealogy Charts - Rossel Island Genealogy (File 33) - Box 3

Reports for Papuan Government: Report on Anthropology of South-Eastern Division... (File 34) - Box 4

Report on Suau-Tawala. I. Introductory. II. Language. III. Magic. IV. Feasts. V. Social Organisation (File 34) - Box 4

Reports for Papuan Government: Report on Native Labour and Taxation. I. Native Labour. II. Native Taxation. III. Collection of Native Tax. IV. Education, Missions (File 35) - Box 4

Book Reviews (File 36) - Box 4

Book Reviews (File 37) - Box 4

Correspondence (File 38) - Box 4

Miscellaneous notes: Including; Clan, Family, Marriage, Classes, Oceania, Totemism, Utility and the theory of Welfare, Protection of native girls from temporary alliances with white men. Articles on Fijians, Tahitians, Micronesians Polynesians (File 39) - Box 4

Series 2. W.E. Armstrong's lectures on 'Magico-Religion"

Handwritten lectures entitled: Religion, Dodo Religion, New Religion 'Zunis', The Ba Ila, The Akamba, 'Lango', Jurod (on the) Thonga. Two Pages, dealing with Ghosts (File 40) - Box 4

Lecture VII Soul Soul Substance, Land of the dead (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture VIII Mortuary Rites (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture IX Mortuary Rites (cont.) (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture X Mortuary Rites (cont.) (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture XI Ancestor - Cults (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture XII Ancestor - Cults (cont.) (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture XIII Hero-Cult (File 41) - Box 4

Lecture I Introductory Origins (File 42) - Box 4

Lecture II Sympathetic Magic (File 42) - Box 4

Lecture III Classification and Psychology of Magical Practices (File 42) - Box 4

Lecture I and II Medicine, Magic Religion (File 42) - Box 4

Lecture IV Mana (File 42) - Box 4

Lecture V Animatism and Animison (File 42) - Box 4

Lecture VI Origin of Animism (File 42) - Box 4

Series 3. William Halse R. Rivers' lectures

According to Dr James Urry, Victoria University of Wellington, the following lectures were delivered by W.H.R. Rivers at Cambridge during 1921-1922. These lectures were later published in Social organization London, Kegan Paul 1924, a book written by Rivers and edited by W.J. Perry. These lectures were found scattered in the Armstrong papers until identified by Dr Urry.

Lecture I Social Groupings. The Family (Rivers Chapter 1.) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture II Tribe Clan The Clan (Rivers chapter 2, rearranged) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture III Marriage (See Rivers Chapter 3) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture IV Father-right and Mother-right (See Rivers Chapter 5) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture V Nature Functions of Social Groups. (Incorporated various places in Rivers book) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture VI The Dual Organisation (Incorporated partly in Rivers p. 27-31) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture VII Social Organisation in Australia. (See Rivers Appendix 11) (File 43) - Box 4

Lecture VIII Fraternities and Secret Societies (Rivers Chapter 7) (File 44) - Box 4

Lecture on Property (Rivers chapter 6) (File 44) - Box 4

Lecture on Occupation, Class and Caste (Rivers Chapter 8) (File 44) - Box 4

Totemism (Apparently never published). By Dr Urry (File 44) - Box 4

Series 4. Photographs Slides and visual materials

Album, containing, slotted-in, photographs, code-numbered QF 1201-OF.1393 (with gaps). 149 original quarter plate photographs, classified in sections, i.e. Rabaul, Boboli, Ferguson, Goodenough, etc (File) - Box 5

Album. Inscribed on endpaper 'W.E. Armstrong, Papua', 1921 (File) - Box 5

Containing upwards of 400 original quarter plate photographs, mounted on album leaves, largely of Rossel Island; portrait studies of natives showing tattooing etc. also landscapes, fishing etc. A number of the photographs having been used for the published version of the book 'Rossel Island: An Ethnological Study'.

A small collection of 19 enlargements, full-plate or larger, Rossel Island other (File) - Box 6

Negatives: Ten Kodak Negative albums, each housing 100 negatives; the negatives code-numbered OF801- QF 1800. 1000 negatives, arranged in chronological order i.e. "Sudest .... Rossel.... Misima...Boboli..... Port Moresby..... Penang...."; albums bear date 1921 or 1922 (File) - Box 5

A box of 48 quarter plate glass negatives of Rossel (?) natives (File) - Box 6

Two boxes containing 122 original photographic lantern slides, on glass, of Rossel Island natives, landscapes, etc (File) - Box 7a, Box 7b (Non-Standard MS Box)

Photograph albums (added May 1984) (File) - Box 8

Albums (13) of prints, proof prints from negatives (including Singapore, Penang, Rossel Island, Townsville, Sydney), (added 1985) (File) - Box 9, Box 10

Card index of photos QF 11 - QF 1065; notes; lists (added 1985) (File) - Box 11

2 Photographs - Pacific Islands (File Unnumbered) - Folio-Box (Shared), Piece 2 Photographs (unnumbered)

Rubbing of Decoration of Pole underneath old house at Gadogadoa, Papua New Guinea (File Unnumbered) - Map-Folio unnumbered (1 map-folio containing two "rubbings")

Folder 1 Negatives - New Guinea- Port Moresby, Cape Nelson (File) - Box 83 (Nitrate)

Nitrate negatives removed from Series 4 Boxes 5,8,10-11 for preservation purposes.

Folder 2 Negatives - New Guinea- Port Moresby, Cape Nelson (File) - Box 83 (Nitrate)

Nitrate negatives removed from Series 4 Boxes 5,8,10-11 for preservation purposes.

Folder 3 Negatives - New Guinea- Port Moresby, Cape Nelson (File) - Box 83 (Nitrate)

Nitrate negatives removed from Series 4 Boxes 5,8,10-11 for preservation purposes.Includes negatives labelled QF 1-100 London to Port Moresby; QF 101-200 Port Moresby - [?]

Folder 4 Negatives - New Guinea- Port Moresby, Cape Nelson (File) - Box 84 (Nitrate)

Nitrate negatives removed from Series 4 Boxes 5,8,10-11 for preservation purposes.Includes negatives labelled QF 201-300 Dulis to Enara; QF 301-400 Enara to Kulecki; QF 401-500 Enara to Buna; QF 501-600 Cape Nelson to Argelle Bay

Folder 5 Negatives - London, Colorado Springs, Santa Fe, Grand Canyon, Honolulu (File) - Box 84 (Nitrate)

Nitrate negatives removed from Series 4 Boxes 5,8,10-11 for preservation purposes.Includes negatives labelled QF 601-700; QF 701-800; VF 1-100 London to Colorado Springs;VF 101-200 Colorado Springs to [?]; VF 201-300 Santa Fe to Grand Canyon; VF 301-400 Grand Canyon to Santa Barbara; VF 401-500 Santa Barbara to Honolulu;

Folder 6 Negatives - Sydney, Blue Mountains, Melbourne, New Guinea (File) - Box 84 (Nitrate)

Nitrate negatives removed from Series 4 Boxes 5,8,10-11 for preservation purposes.Includes negatives labelled VF 501-600 Honolulu to Sydney; VF 701-800 Melbourne to Blue Mountains; VF 801- 900 Blue Mountains to New Guinea; VF 1201-1300 New Guinea; VF 1101-1200 New Guinea; QF 901-1000; QF 1001-1100; Miscellaneous


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