Guide to the Papers of William Halse Rivers Rivers (as filmed by the AJCP)

Paper: Funeral Customs in Vanua Lava: account by Raymond Woqet of Vanua Lava. (4p.), [n.d.] (File)

L. Fison (Melbourne) to Rivers re kinship in Fiji, loss of his papers in hurricane, 9 November 1901 (File)

H.N. Drummond (Raga) to Rivers re vocabulary for relationships, 15 September 1908 (File)

John Patteson Pantutum (Auckland) to Rivers re his health, 17 March 1909 (File)

W.J. Durrad (Norfolk Island) to Rivers re his work on Torres vocabulary (damaged), 14 April 1909 (File)

C.E. Fox (Norfolk Island) to Rivers re language work; collected 40 children's games played in Banks' Islands, 3 July 1909 (File)

C.E. Fox (Norfolk Island) to Rivers comments on Tylor's work, language work, 15 September 1909 (File)

John Pantutum (Southern Cross) to Rivers requesting cigarettes for his father's asthma, 10 January 1910 (File)

Rivers (Cambridge) to Humes re Kava, 15 February 1913 (File)

J.W. Layard to Rivers re Kava. (6p.), 19 January 1916 (File)

Note on totemism, 12 October 1912 (File)

Typescript, in envelope addressed to Rivers by Andrew Lang).

Robert Williamson [n.pl.] re sun worship in Polynesia (part letter), [n.d.] (File)

Elsdon Best (Wellington) to Rivers re sun worship in Maori tradition, 5 February 1914 (File)

Katherine Routledge (Bursledon) to Rivers re Easter Island. (6p.), 15 August 1920 (File)

Sidney Ray (Ilford) to Rivers re Easter Island language connections, 2 November 1920 (File)

J.G. Frazer (London) to Rivers re sun worship in Polynesia; Gifford's work on Tonga, 11 October 1921 (File)

E. Sidney Hartland (Gloucester) to Rivers re cultural influences on Gazelle Peninsula, 15 October 1913 (File)

E. Sidney Hartland (Gloucester) to Rivers re transmission; Tylor; the war, 29 November 1915 (File)

A. Radcliffe Brown [n.pl.] post script only of letter, re argument that Australia is a mixed race society, [n.d.] (File)

'Anthropological Thoughts'. Poem. (Paper headed Southern Cross, Melanesia Mission, 2p.) (File)

Rivers (Cambridge) to Father Egidi, re terms for relationship in Melanesia. (4p., carbon), [n.d.] (File)

Egidi (Yule Island) to Rivers(?) re terms for relationships (in French). (27p.), 16 August 1908 (File)

Egidi (Papua) to Rivers(?) re family relationships (in French). (4p.), 11 December 1908 (File)

A. Wollaston (New Guinea) to Rivers, 4 May 1910 (File)

Re field work amongst natives - language difficulties 'not one of the natives understood a single word of Malay'. (3p.)

Beveley Humes (Rabaul) to Rivers, 5 August 1912 (File)

Re work in bush behind Port Resolution; encloses answers to questions in J.G. Frazer's booklet on the customs of savages (of New Hebrides). (15p.)

Robert Williamson (Godalming) to Rivers re burial customs, 10 January 1913 (File)

Sidney Ray (Ilford) to Rivers re language, 31 January 1913 (File)

(?) (London) to Rivers re Motu iduhu (incomplete), 7 February 1913 (File)

Sidney Ray (Ilford) to Rivers re language, enclosing word list, 20 February 1913 (File)

Sidney Egidi (Rome) to Rivers re notes received from Seligman, 9 March 1913 (File)

Beveley Humes (Kinigunan) to Rivers re New Hebrides, Kava. (5p.), 13 April 1913 (File)

Beveley Humes (Kinigunan) to Rivers re producing fire on Tanna. (6p.), 11 May 1913 (File)

Malinowski (Samarai) to Rivers re work in Tobriands, 15 October 1915 (File)

Rivers (Cambridge) to A. Radcliffe Brown re place of psychological interpretations in sociology. (Carbon) (3p.), [n.d.] (File)

A.R. Brown (Birmingham) to Rivers re Rivers' criticism of Brown's work. (7p.), [n.d.] (File)

F. Shmidt (St. Gabriel-Modling) to Rivers, will request information on social organisation from Father Suas in New Hebrides, 8 July 1912 (File)

A.R. Brown (Birmingham) to Rivers re relationships; differences between them; Durkheim's theories; totemism. (2 letters), [n.d.] (File)

Shmidt (Modling) to Rivers re Durkheim, Frazer, Haddon, and other anthropologists (in German), 31 May 1913 (File)

The Decadence and Preservation of the Natives of the New Hebrides, by Felix Speiser, Basle. (Typescript) (22p.), December 1912 (File)

39 cards of physical measurements of natives from Mabuiag, Saibai, Muralug, Hammond Island, 2 December 1898 (File)

R. Etheridge (Australian Museum) to Rivers re exhibits., 2 December 1898 (File)