Guide to the Papers of Ernest William Pearson Chinnery
MS 766
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Ernest William Pearson Chinnery
- Title
- Papers of Ernest William Pearson Chinnery
- Date Range
- 1897-1971
- Collection Number
- MS 766
- Extent
- 8.43 metres (61 boxes, 8 folio items)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise official, personal and academic correspondence, diaries, photographs, patrol reports, field notebooks, conference papers, lectures, broadcasts, articles, anthropological writings and research material, translations of German and French texts, administration handbooks and ordinances, publications on anthropology, language and education, United Nations reports and publications and other papers.
The papers relate to Chinnery's career in the territories of Papua and New Guinea as a Patrol Officer, Government Anthropologist, and Director of the Department of District Services and Native Affairs, and a Director of Native Affairs and Commonwealth Advisor on Native Affairs in Australia. There are also papers relating to Chinnery's association with the Far Eastern Liaison Office during World War II, the South Seas Commission Conference (1947), United Nations missions to Africa, and all aspects of Papua New Guinea, including history, exploration, anthropology, genealogy, language, education, health, missions, crimes and discipline, native rights, mining, trade and pre-war, wartime and post-war administration.
Among the correspondents are many notable anthropologists and administrators such as Sir Staniforth Smith, John Taylor, C.L.A. Abbott, Bill Harney, A.P. Elkin, Theodor Strehlow, Camilla Wedgwood, Olive Pink, Sir Baldwin Spencer, A.C. Haddon and Margaret Mead.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn461080).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Ernest William Pearson Chinnery, National Library of Australia, MS 766, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The Chinnery Papers were purchased from Chinnery's daughters in 1994 and 1997. One of Chinnery's daughters, Mrs Sheila Waters, extensively listed the papers, describing their order before they were transferred to the Library. These lists, annotated with citation numbers for the present arrangement, are located in box 56. Some lists were also interspersed with the papers.
Related Materials
Diaries of Sarah Chinnery are held at MS 8974.
Arrangement
The series have been arranged broadly into five sections: personal correspondence and photographs (Series 1-2); material arising directly from Chinnery's various positions (Series 3-14); anthropological material (Series 15-22); publications (Series 23-28) and family letters, diaries and notebooks (Series 29-30). The anthropological material may be seen as subsets of the contemporaneous administrative material.
Separated Material
Maps have been transferred to Map Collection (list available). Duplicate negatives of the Chinnery photographs are held in the PictURES Collection.
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Born 5 November at Waterloo, Victoria. |
| 1909 | Government Clerk, Port Moresby. |
| 1910 | Patrol Officer, Mambare Division, Papua; then Kumusi Division for three years. |
| 1917-1919 | Observer in the Australian Flying Corps. |
| 1919 | Married Sarah J. Neill in Aylesbury, England. |
| 1920 | Cuthbert Peek Award, Royal Geographical Society. |
| 1921-1924 | Labour Adviser, New Guinea Copper Mines Ltd. |
| 1924-1932 | Government Anthropologist, New Guinea. |
| 1930 | Rockefeller Fellow, in United States and Europe; represented Australia at Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva. |
| 1932-1938 | Director, Department of District Services and Native Affairs, New Guinea. |
| 1934 | Represented Australia at Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva. |
| 1937-1947 | Commonwealth Adviser on Native Affairs. |
| 1938-1946 | Director, Native Affairs Branch, Northern Territory. |
| 1947 | Australian adviser, United Nations Trusteeship Council. |
| 1948 | United Nations visiting mission to East Africa. |
| 1972 | Died 17 December at Prahran, Victoria. |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Born 5 November at Waterloo, Victoria. |
| 1909 | Government Clerk, Port Moresby. |
| 1910 | Patrol Officer, Mambare Division, Papua; then Kumusi Division for three years. |
| 1917-1919 | Observer in the Australian Flying Corps. |
| 1919 | Married Sarah J. Neill in Aylesbury, England. |
| 1920 | Cuthbert Peek Award, Royal Geographical Society. |
| 1921-1924 | Labour Adviser, New Guinea Copper Mines Ltd. |
| 1924-1932 | Government Anthropologist, New Guinea. |
| 1930 | Rockefeller Fellow, in United States and Europe; represented Australia at Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva. |
| 1932-1938 | Director, Department of District Services and Native Affairs, New Guinea. |
| 1934 | Represented Australia at Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva. |
| 1937-1947 | Commonwealth Adviser on Native Affairs. |
| 1938-1946 | Director, Native Affairs Branch, Northern Territory. |
| 1947 | Australian adviser, United Nations Trusteeship Council. |
| 1948 | United Nations visiting mission to East Africa. |
| 1972 | Died 17 December at Prahran, Victoria. |
Item Descriptions
Series 1. General Correspondence, 1914-71
The two principal elements in this series are correspondence with anthropologists and correspondence regarding changes in Chinnery's career. Includes some copies of Chinnery's letters.
A.C. Haddon, Cambridge, 1924-32: transcripts of letters from Chinnery in Haddon's papers [cf. History of Anthropology Newsletter IX/2 (December 1982), 3-12] (File 7) - Box 1
Anthropological Society of New South Wales, 1930; Anthropological Society of Victoria, 1953, 1966-70 (File 16) - Box 2
Australian Museums, 1916-1968 (File 17) - Box 2
Including Victoria, 1916-65; New South Wales, 1917; Territory of New Guinea, 1939; Queensland, 1949; South Australia, 1964-68.
Overseas Museums, 1927-1969 (File 18) - Box 2
Including Cambridge, 1927; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1929; Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1932, 1937; Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1968-69.
Universities, 1935-1965. Including University of Melbourne, 1950-65; University of Sydney, 1957; University of Hawaii, 1935 (File 21) - Box 3
Papuan Service: letters of appreciation, 1914-22; University of Cambridge: letters, 1920, 1924 (File 24) - Box 3
Application for anthropological work and correspondence detailing his qualifications and experience, 1919-31, 1964 [mostly photocopies] (File 27) - Box 4
General correspondence, 1934-48 (File 30) - Box 4
Correspondents include Herbert Brookes, Admiral Goodenough, W.E. Dunk, W.D. Forsyth, and Hortense and Florence Powdermaker.
General correspondence, 1943-49 (File 31) - Box 4
Correspondents include R. Halligan, G. Townsend, W.B. Fagg, W.C. Klein, J.K. Murray, M.J. Herskovits, T.N.M. Buesst, Harold J. Coolidge, J.T. Gunther, T.V. Lowney, W.C Groves, H.E. Maude and Sir Brian Freeston.
General correspondence, 1951-56 (File 32) - Box 4
Correspondents include H. Laurent, Ralph Bunche, H.B Manderson, F. Rose, Kathleen Rishbeth, Ron Berndt, F.F. Degenhardt, G. Heaton Nichols, N.H.M. Bowden, Paul Hasluck, H.G. Barnett, Anita Pritchard, J.B. Watson and Jacques Rapoport.
Series 2. Photographs, 1907-60s
Other photographs are included in Series 7 (Morobe District Administration and Exploration), 12 (United Nations, 13 (Congresses and Conferences) and 20 (Anthropological Research).
Chinnery and other boarders at Ayrshire House, Daylesford, Victoria, 1907. (Copy only). (Item 1) (File 1) - Box 5
Messrs Bulk, Chinnery, Gibson and Ham, Port Moresby, ca 1909-10. (Copy only). (Item 3) (File 1) - Box 5
Legislative Council meeting on board the Government Steam Yacht Merrie England, 1909. (Item 5) (File 1) - Box 5
Visit by Patrol Officer J. Keelan to Magistrate Herr Klink, German New Guinea, 1911. (Item 6) (File 1) - Box 5
Chinnery and Wilfrid Beaver with Papuan Armed Constables, at outbreak of war, Ioma, 1914. (Item 10) (File 1) - Box 5
Chinnery and Papuan Armed Constables on patrol on the German border, 1914. (Item 11) (File 2) - Box 5
Dr Peter Buck, Mr Skinner, Dr Haddon, Chinnery and Mr Bullboy at the Pan-Pacific Health Conference, Melbourne, 1926. (Item 13) (File 2) - Box 5
Participants at the International Pan-Pacific Health Conference, Melbourne, 1926. (Original at Folder 7). (Item 14) (File 2) - Box 5
Chinnery, General Wisdom and Clive Meares on horseback, New Guinea, ca 1927. (Copy only). (Item 15) (File 2) - Box 5
Section F (Anthropology), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Sydney, 1932. (Item 17) (File 2) - Box 5
Inaugural Meeting, Legislative Council of New Guinea, 9 May 1933: copy. (Item 19) (File 3) - Box 5
(Original held in folio run).
Copies of 18 photographs, mostly of a family nature, of which the originals have been retained by the donors, including several of Chinnery in uniform, Chinnery as a young father and as an old man, Mr and Mrs Chinnery, and the family when the children were young women; with negatives (File 5) - Box 5
Inaugural Meeting, Legislative Council of New Guinea, 9 May 1933: original (File 7) - Folio [unnumbered]
Series 3. Administration of the Territory of Papua, 1906-17
Chinnery first went to Papua in 1909, and became a patrol officer in 1910, working in the Mambare and Kumusi Divisions. This series contains files of correspondence, patrol reports, expedition reports, diaries, notes, sketches, maps and annual reports.
Hearings into the government of Papua, Port Moresby, 1906: recommendations 1907; part of transcripts. (File 1) - Box 5
Northern Division, Papua: rough anthropological notes (manuscript and typescript) (File 12-15) - Box 6, 7
Northern Division, Papua: anthropological notes, mostly typescript; includes 'Notes on the Tribes of the Northern Division', by E.W.P. Chinnery and Wilfrid Beaver, c. 1914 (File 16-17) - Box 7
Kikori Patrols, Delta Division, 1916-17; includes map of southern part of Delta Division, 1916 (File 20-22) - Box 7
Kikori Patrols, Delta Division, 1910s: notes and sketches, and Goaribari vocabulary notebook (File 23) - Box 8
Kunimaipa - Mt. Yule Patrol, 1917: survey notebook with sketches and weather observations (File 31) - Box 9
Kunimaipa - Mt. Yule Patrol, 1917: Hints on the Medical Treatment of Natives and Others in Papua, by Walter M. Strong, 1908. Copy belonging to Wilfrid Beaver, with annotations by Chinnery, 1917 (File 33) - Box 9
Series 4. New Guinea Copper Mines Limited, 1920-24
Chinnery was Labour Adviser, New Guinea Copper Mines Ltd., 1921-24. The papers include correspondence, a chronology of Chinnery's movements in Papua from November 1920 to September 1921, notes and a booklet and article on the company. Other papers relating to this period on Chinnery's career are in series 16 (Native Labour), 18 (Native Languages) and 30 (Diaries and Notebooks).
Series 5. Government Anthropologist, New Guinea, 1924-32
Chinnery was appointed Government Anthropologist in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea in 1924. The papers in this series include correspondence, copies of letters by Chinnery, reports, Chinnery's reports and recommendations to the Government Secretary, observations made on trips, notes, conference proceedings, annual reports of the Government Anthropologist and census data. Major correspondents include the Administrator Evan A. Wisdom, the Government Secretary, the District Inspector John Walstab, Professor A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Cecil Anderson.
Other papers relating to this period on Chinnery's career are in series 15 (Native Rights), 16 (Native Labour), 18 (Native Languages), 19 (Depopulation), 20 (Anthroppological Research) and 30 (Diaries and Notebooks).
Report by Colonel John Ainsworth on Administrative Arrangements and Matters Affecting the Interests of Natives in the Territory of New Guinea, 1924, and comments (File 9) - Box 10
Attacks on Europeans during German Administration, 1881-1912 (translated 1927), and notes on killing of O'Dowd, ca 1924 (File 11) - Box 11
Series 6. Department of District Services and Native Affairs, Mandated Territory of New Guinea, 1932-42
Chinnery was director of the Department from 1932 to 1938. The papers include monthly and annual reports to the Administrator in Rabaul on the Department's activities, notes, copies of letters to the Administrator (T. Griffiths), extracts of patrol reports, an interview and cuttings.
Other papers relating to this period on Chinnery's career are in series 7 (Morobe District Administration and Exploration), 15 (Native Rights), 16 (Native Labour), 17 (Native Education), 18 (Native Languages), 19 (Depopulation) and 30 (Diaries and Notebooks).
Monthly and annual reports, 1932-37, and minutes of Permanent Mandates Commission, 1934 (File 1-2) - Box 12
'The Australian administration of New Guinea', 21 Feb 1938. Interview Professor Scott/E. Dyason, n.d (File 8) - Box 12
'Officer Woodman left post of Sepik without permission': notes, 1936. Natives from Lord Howe Island cast up on Han Island: reports, 1937. Sepik-Fly watershed: four contact photographs (File 12) - Box 13
Series 7. Morobe District Administration and Exploration, 1927-65
A series of files covering especially the time just prior to and during Chinnery's period as Director of the Department of District Services and Native Affairs in the Mandated Territory, 1932-38. The papers include patrol reports, correspondence, reports to the Administrator in Rabaul, manuscript maps, extracts of diaries of M.J. Leahy, photographs and a press statement.
See also series 6 (Department of District Services and Native Affairs).
Lists of patrols into Upper Watut and Langemar River, 1927-32; extracts from M.J Leahy's diary, Upper Watut - Tauri - Langemar, 1931 and two letters re Lakekamu - Tauri - Watut area, 1933 (File 1) - Box 14
Extracts from M.J. Leahy's diary of a prospecting trip, 1930-33; letter to Commander of Naval Intelligence, Melbourne, 1943 (photocopies), and one photograph of a New Guinea native (File 6) - Box 14
Patrol reports, Mt Hagen - Ramu, 1933, by Officers Bates, Nurton, Kyle, and Ian Mack. List of patrols, 1930-36. Folder 121 includes photographs and sketches (File 7-8) - Box 14
Patrol reports, Mt Hagen - Ramu, 1933, by Officers Bates, Nurton, Kyle, and Ian Mack. List of patrols, 1930-36. Folder 121 includes photographs and sketches (File 9) - Box 15
Series 8. Director of Native Affairs, Northern Territory, 1938-46, and Commonwealth Adviser on Native Affairs, 1937-47
The Native Affairs Branch of the Northern Territory Administration was created in 1939. The Branch assumed responsibility for Aborigines after the split of the Medical Service, Health and Aboriginals Branch. The Native Affairs Branch moved from Darwin to Alice Springs in 1942, returning to Darwin in 1946.
The papers mainly comprise reports to the Administrator of the Northern Territory, C.L.A. Abbott; correspondence with J.A. Carrodus of the Department of Interior, V. White (Deputy Director of Native Affairs) and others; and other material including policy documents, legislation, memoranda, cuttings, extracts of Cabinet minutes and annual reports.
Other papers relating to this period on Chinnery's career are in series 16 (Native Labour), 19 (Depopulation), 20 (Anthropological Research) and 30 (Diaries and Notebooks). A typescript item list of most of this series, produced by Chinnery's daughter, Mrs Sheila Waters, is located at the end of the collection.
Proposed separation of Aboriginal Branch from Northern Territory Medical Service and proposed appointment of Commonwealth Adviser on Native Affairs, 1938 (File 1) - Box 16
Conditions governing employment of staff in Departments of Aboriginals in other states - Salaries, etc, 1939 (File 7) - Box 17
Report to Administrator, 1940, and copies of related papers [two copies of same file] (File 8) - Box 17
Congratulations on appointment; native labour in New Guinea: correspondence, 1939-40 (File 16) - Box 18
Protection of Aborigines; Australian Aborigines' League; north-south road, 1940-43 (File 17) - Box 18
General correspondence, including reports on sequel to Darwin air-raids, 1941, 1944 (File 24) - Box 19
Reports on Aborigines' working conditions; drugs and metholated spirits; and Petermann Ranges report;, 1939-46 (File 35) - Box 21
Bill Harney: notes on Aboriginal births, marriage system, food, and other customs; verse, n.d (File 49) - Box 22
Ungaraku: Church Missionary Society report on proposed construction at Groote Eylandt, May 1944 (File 52) - Box 23
Evacuations from Northern Territory and return, Church Missionary Society, 1942-45 (File 53) - Box 23
Methodist Overseas Mission: evacuation of half-castes from Croker Island and plans for return, 1942-46 (File 56) - Box 23
Aboriginal contributions to the war-effort: Melville Island and Delissaville, 1945 (File 68) - Box 25
Aboriginal ordinances: Northern Territory, apprentices, n.d.; regulations, 1918-33 (File 76) - Box 26
Series 9. Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO), 1942-44
Chinnery's advice and experience of working in Papua New Guinea were sought by FELO on matters such as use of native carrier transport, treatment of natives, and travel in New Guinea for the purpose of training and equipping soldiers and re-establishing administrative activities in the outlying areas of the country which had been disorganised by enemy action. The papers include correspondence, reports, cuttings and publications.
Series 10. Department of External Territories, 1937-59
Files relating to Commonwealth external territories including typescript reports by Chinnery, printed reports, cuttings, legislation, notes, meeting papers, press releases, lectures, printed material, syllabus papers, correspondence with officers of the Department of External Territories, and reports by the Department and others on external territories.
Amalgamation of administration of Papua and New Guinea, and United Nations Trusteeship, 1939-49 (File 2) - Box 27
Amalgamation of administration of Papua and New Guinea, and United Nations Trusteeship, 1939-49 (File 3) - Box 28
Series 11. South Pacific Commission, 1946-51
The South Seas Commission was established in 1947 by Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom and the United States to promote the economic and social welfare of the people of the South Pacific. The South Seas Commission Conference preceded the establishment of the South Pacific Commission. Chinnery was secretary of the conference held in Canberra on 28 Jan - 6 Feb 1947.
The series comprises mainly papers from the 1947 conference and reports, 1950-51.
South Seas Commission. Conference documents: Committee I (area and structure), Jan-Feb 1947 (File 6) - Box 30
South Seas Commission. Conference documents: Committee II (functions and powers), Jan-Feb 1947 (File 7) - Box 30
South Seas Commission. Conference documents: Committee III (auxiliary bodies), Jan-Feb 1947 (File 8) - Box 30
South Seas Commission. Conference documents: Committee V (immediate projects), Jan-Feb 1947 (File 10) - Box 30
South Seas Commission. Conference documents: Committee VI (drafting and coordination), Jan-Feb 1947 (File 11) - Box 30
South Seas Commission. Conference documents: 'A study of agricultural problems in the Pacific region', Jan 1947 (File 12) - Box 31
South Pacific Commission, first meeting: brief for the Australian delegation and other papers, Apr-May 1948; South Seas Commission Conference proceedings, Jan-Feb 1947; includes photograph of Chinnery and Rev. John Burton (?) (File 13) - Box 31
South Pacific Commission. 'Review of research in social anthropology: Papuan/Melanesian Section', by Professor A.P. Elkin, 1950 (File 15) - Box 31
Series 12. United Nations, 1946-52
Chinnery took part in UN visiting missions to Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi in 1948.
Economic and Social Council: Reconstruction of devastated areas: Papua-New Guinea, Jan 1947 (File 2) - Box 32
Australian Mission to the United Nations, New York: outward telegrams, Mar-Apr 1947 (File 7) - Box 32
Trusteeship Council: Background survey of Ruanda-Urundi (two versions), ca 1948. Guide to Ruanda-Urundi, ca 1948 (File 10) - Box 33
Trusteeship Council: Visiting mission to the Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi: report and annex, 31 Oct 1948 (File 15) - Box 33
Trusteeship Council: Report of the visiting mission to the Trust Territory of Tanganyika, 8 Nov 1948 (File 16) - Box 33
Trusteeship Council: Observations of the UK Government on the report on Tanganyika, 1949 (File 17) - Box 33
Series 13. Congresses and Conferences, 1923-49
Papers in this series comprise correspondence, cuttings, reports, papers read by Chinnery, photographs and resolutions, summaries of discussions, minutes and other conference papers.
International Pan-Pacific Health Conference, Melbourne, 1926: photograph (File 3) - Folio [unnumbered]
League of Nations International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1930: Forced Labour, Draft Conventions and Recommendations (File 4) - Box 34
Australian National University Conference on Research in Pacific Studies, 3-4 Apr 1948: reports and summary of discussions (File 7) - Box 34
Series 14. Lectures, 1930-66
Lectures and broadcasts by Chinnery on New Guinea. They also include cuttings, flyers, correspondence and lecture notes. Other lectures by Chinnery are in series 16 (Native Labour).
Series 15. Native Rights, 1926-71
Files on native rights dating from Chinnery's period as Government Anthropologist and Director of the Department of District Services and Native Affairs as well as material from the 1960s and 1970s. The papers include manuscript and typescript notes, copies of correspondence and reports, and minutes. See also series 5 and 6.
Series 16. Native Labour, 1922-44
Papers dating from Chinnery's period as Labour Adviser with New Guinea Copper Mines, Government Anthropologist, Director of the Department of District Services and Native Affairs, and Director of the Northern Territory Native Affairs Branch.
The papers include legislation, manuscript notes, typescript reports, addresses by Chinnery, statistical data, correspondence, questionnaires and conference papers.
See also series 4, 5, 6 and 8.
Series 17. Native Education, 1928-36
Reports, tables, syllabus' and publications mainly dating from Chinnery's period as Director of District Services and Native Affairs. See also series 6.
Series 18. Native Languages, 1897-1956
Printed and typescript grammars and vocabularies, articles, manuscript stories and essays dating from Chinnery's periods with New Guinea Copper Mines, Government Anthropologist and Director of District Services and Native Affairs. See also series 4, 5 and 6.
Grammar of the Binandele language, Mamba River, British New Guinea: typescript, n.d (File 1) - Box 38
A study of the languages of Torres Straits, with vocabularies and grammatical notes, Part II, by S.H. Ray and A.C. Haddon, c. 1897 (File 2) - Box 38
Vocabulary of the Binandele dialect spoken by the natives of the Mamba River, British New Guinea, by Rev. Copland King, Sydney, 1901 (File 3) - Box 38
Revised Motu grammar and vocabulary, by Rev. R. Lister-Turner and Rev. J.B. Clark, 1930 (File 4) - Box 38
'Note on the language of Kabadi, British New Guinea', by W. Mersh Strong, offprint from Anthropos, n.d (File 5) - Box 38
Series 19. Depopulation, 1919-50
Files on depopulation containing material dating from Chinnery's period as Government Anthropologist, Director of the Departmetn of District Services and Native Affairs and Commonwealth Advisor on Native Affairs. See also Series 5, 6 and 8.
Series 20. Anthropological Research, 1915-71
Patrol report extracts, correspondence, drawings, sketch maps, notes, reports, photographs, statistical data and other papers dating from Chinnery's period as Government Anthropologist and Commonwealth Advisor on Native Affairs as well as from the 1960s and 1970s. See also series 5 and 8.
Manus Island; Kavieng, New Ireland; Siassi Islands (includes sketches by R.H. Vigor); Vunapope; Talasea, Gasmata and Jacquinot Bay, New Britain; Gazelle Peninsula; East Nakanai; Kieta and Buka Passage, Bougainville (includes photographs); Mt Hagen, New Guinea; Tanga Islands, 1924-33 (File 1-7) - Box 40, 41
Notes: String Figures and tricks. Relics of an Unknown People, 1952. Margaret Mead's notes on methods of inquiry (File 19) - Box 42
Notes about people speaking Papuan languages, descriptions of New Guinea peoples, and various loose notes (File 21) - Box 43
Letter to Secretary, External Territories, 1947 (File 22) - Box 43
Reported abortion practices in Tabar, New Guinea
Letter to B.G. Burton Bradley, Port Moresby, 1966 (File 22) - Box 43
Tensions affecting the indigenous population leading to shame fear
'A few notes on natives seen during the voyages of the government steam yacht Franklin between 9th January and 12th March 1925' (File 23) - Box 43
'Natives of the Waria, Williams and Bialolo Watersheds' (Anthropological Report No. 4), 28 Jan 1930 (File 24) - Box 43
Ethnological survey of the southern part of Bougainville, 1929-30 (Anthropological Report No. 5?) (File 25) - Box 43
Notes from other anthropologists in New Guinea: Purari warfare and custom, from Reo Fortune; Secret societies and masked dancers, from Gregory Bateson? (File 26) - Box 43
Duk Duk and other initiation rites: notes, correspondence and other papers, 1925-28 (File 28) - Box 43
Practical anthropology: Several genealogies. Field work plan for anthropologists. Reading list (File 29) - Box 43
'An Anthropological Study of the Island Peoples of the Pacific', South Seas Commission Conference, 1926; 'Blood Group Genetical Studies ... in Papua -New Guinea', Proceedings of the 8th Congress of the International Society for Blood Transfusions, 1962; 'Blood Groups ... of the New Guinea Highlands', Human Biology in Oceania, 1971; 'A Compendium of Melanesian Genetic Data', Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 1971 (File 31) - Box 44
Notes on languages: Aitapi District; Duke of York Islands; New Ireland New Hanover and Tabar Islands; Bougainville, Buka and Shortlands Islands; by various people (File 32) - Box 44
Physical measurements of people from various districts of New Guinea: soft-covered album, n.d (File 50) - Folio [unnumbered]
Record of population facts, recorded in a volume of Native Population, Census and Tax Lists (File 51) - Folio [unnumbered]
Series 21. Anthropological Reports, 1927-31
Printed reports by Chinnery in his capacity as Government Anthropologist. See also series 5.
Nos. 1 and 2: Notes on the natives of certain villages of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea visited during the voyages of the government steam yacht "Franklin," January-March 1925, Melbourne, 1927 (File 1) - Box 47
No. 3: Certain natives in south New Britain and Dampier Straits, Melbourne, c. 1927 (File 2) - Box 47
Series 22. Translations, 1897-1927
Translations of administrative, anthropological and missionary texts, mostly from German.
R. Parkinson, Thirty years in the South Sea: Translation (Extracts), from Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee (Stuttgart, 1907). Bound typescript (File 1) - Box 47
Bougainville Initiation, translated from German: Life periods, puberty, marriage, pipil feast in Gazelle Peninsula, domestic economy and state, barter, political organisation, occurrences, genealogical tables. Translated by A.F. Schmahl, 1927. Manuscript (File 3-5) - Box 47, 48
Ethnological report by Stephen Lehner, Cape Arcona, 1922. Translated by Charles Pears. Manuscript and typescript (File 7) - Box 48
'Canoe building on Siasi': translation of a report by the Lutheran Mission, with sketches (File 8) - Box 48
'Dances of the Ono people', by Rev. Karl Saueracker, Kalasa. Translated by Johannes Flierl, Senior Missionary, Heldsbach, 1925 (File 10) - Box 48
'Rights and customs of the aboriginal tribes in New Guinea, District Morobe', by Rev. Johannes Flierl (File 11) - Box 48
'Some remarks on the orthography of the native languages in New Guinea', by Rev. Johannes Flierl (File 12) - Box 48
Investigation of native law on property rights, translation from German file No. 408, 1909 (File 16) - Box 49
License for the practice of trading rights on the French Islands, 1904, translated 1927 (File 17) - Box 49
Rev. Konrad Vetter of Simbang, 'Report on Papuan legal conditions as observed by the Jabins', News on Kaiser Wilhelmsland and the Bismarck Archipelago, German Annual Report on New Guinea, 1 June 1897 (File 18) - Box 49
Dr Albert Hahl, 'Legal affairs and the natives' view on legal matters', News on Kaiser Wilhelmsland and the Bismarck Archipelago, German Annual Report on New Guinea, 1 June 1897 (File 19) - Box 49
A. Hoffman, 'Communication regarding the outlook and customs of the natives in the village of Bogadjim near Stephansort with regard to possession and succession', News on Kaiser Wilhelmsland and the Bismarck Archipelago, German Annual Report on New Guinea, 1 June 1897 (File 20) - Box 49
Rev. G. Pilhofer, 'A journey through New Guinea, from Waria River to Markham River', 1915 (File 24) - Box 50
Rev. Christian Keysser, 'The first ascension of the eastern peak of the Finisterre Mountains', 1913 (File 25) - Box 50
Series 23. Chinnery Publications, 1917-53
Publications by or about Chinnery.
Man: A monthly journal of anthropological science, various issues, 1917-34; original photographs used in a 1934 article, 'Mountain tribes of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from Mt Chapman to Mt Hagen' (File 1) - Box 51
'The application of anthropological methods to tribal development in New Guinea', 1919 (File 2) - Box 51
'The central ranges of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from Mt Chapman to Mt Hagen', 1934 (File 6) - Box 51
Two articles: 'Exploration of central ranges of Mandated Territory of New Guinea from Mt Chapman to Mt Hagen', published in Geographical Journal, Nov 1934. 'New Tribes in Central New Guinea'. D1 (File 7) - Box 51
Series 24. Government Publications, 1901-45
Royal commission of inquiry into the present conditions, including the methods of government, of the territory now known as Papua, and the best means for their improvement. Report. 1907 (File 1) - Box 52
Series 26. German Publications, 1910-35
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer amtlichen Forschungreise nach dem Bismarck-Archipel im Jahre 1908 (Scientific results of an official research trip to the Bismarck Archipelago in 1908), Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten Nr. 3, Berlin, 1910 (File 1) - Box 54
Forschungen im Innern der Insel Neuguinea (Research in the interior of the island of New Guinea), Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten Nr. 11, Berlin, 1914 (File 2) - Box 54
Der Sepik (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss) und sein Stromgebiet: Geographischer Bericht der Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition 1912-13 (The Sepik and its catchment: geographical report of the expedition 1912-13), Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten Nr. 12, Berlin, 1917 (File 3) - Box 54
Series 27. General Publications, 1927-51
Missionary publications (File 1) - Box 55
Rev. Johannes Flierl: Is the New Guinea primitive race destined to perish at the hands of European civilization? Observations and Experiences, 1936. Christ in New Guinea for young and old, 1932. 1886-1936, Ein dankbarer Rückblick ... zum Jubiläum der Lutherischen Mission auf Neu Guinea, 1936. Vom Reitochsen zum Flugzeug ... zum Jubiläum der Lutherischen Mission auf Neu Guinea, 1936. Into the land that time forgot: souvenir of the beginning of the Australian New Guinea Mission, 1951. Missionary Emil Hannemann, Keys to the Papuan's soul, n.d
Series 28. Miscellanea, 1919-66
List of books transferred from the Prime Minister's Department to Home and Territories Department, 12 June 1924; with Printed papers relating to the islands of the Pacific: arrangement of papers in Vols, 1 to 18, containing papers to 1900. (Typescript) (File 1) - Box 55-56
Policy dispatch, with summary of policy, from Administrator, New Guinea, to Sir Joseph Cook, 30 Aug 1921 (File 2) - Box 55-56
Curriculum vitae of Raphael West Cilento, ca 1933. Genealogy of the Coe-Forsythe-Parkinson family (Queen Emma), n.d (File 3) - Box 55-56
Report on the Vivian Collection of eleven hundred negatives of Papua from 1915 to 1940, by E.W.P. Chinnery (2 p., typescript), 1966 (File 5) - Box 55-56
Series 29. Family Letters, 1909-50
Letters to his mother, father, sister, brother, wife and children written from Papua, New Guinea, Northern Territory, United States, Africa, and France.
This series was added in 1997. Further papers added in 1997 are found in Series 1 (General correspondence), 2 (Photographs), 3 (Administration of the Territory of Papua), 28 (Miscellanea) and 30 (Diaries and Notebooks).
Series 30. Diaries and Notebooks, 1920-46
Diaries, notebooks and files of statistics, arranged and listed by Sheila Waters. The diaries cover Chinnery's work in Papua, New Guinea and the Northern Territory and include additional material such as reports, notes on tribes and population statistics. Most of the diaries and some of the supporting material have been transcribed by Sheila Waters.
This series was added in 1997. Further papers added in 1997 are found in Series 1 (General correspondence), 2 (Photographs), 3 (Administration of the Territory of Papua), 28 (Miscellanea) and 29 (Family Letters).