National Anthropological Archives
Homer Garner Barnett Papers
Barnett, H. G. (Homer Garner), 1906-1985
NAA.1975-17
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7.5 Linear feet
1934-1973
The Homer Garner Barnett papers, 1934-1973, consist of papers, photographs, slides, maps, and periodicals primarily documenting his ethnological work among American Indians, Palauans, and the people of Netherlands New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
Material is in English, Dutch, and German.
Biographical Note
Homer G. Barnett trained at the University of California at Berkeley and practiced as an ethnologist and archeologist. He specialized in culture change and applied anthropology.
Barnett's earliest field work was among American Indians of Oregon, Washington, and northwestern California--particularly the Yurok, Hupa, Yakima, and several small groups of the Oregon coast. Some of his research concerned diverse ethnological matters but much of it focused primarily on the Indian Shaker religion and the potlatch, the latter being the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
In 1939, while he was on the faculty of the University of New Mexico, Barnett served as field director of the Jemez Archeological Field School and was in charge of a project in the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. Later in the same year, he joined the faculty of the University of Oregon and has been chiefly identified with that institution since then. In the summer of 1943, however, he participated in a World War II Far Eastern Language and Area Training Program of the University of California at Berkeley. There he helped train voluteer service men in techniques of eliciting cultural information from native informants.
In the following year, he joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology and became a researcher associated with the Ethnogeographic Board, the World War II agency formed to provide scientific information about human and natural resources of the world. He served as the executive secretary of the Board's Pacific Survey Project and, later, undertook a War Document Survey concerning the Pacific to determine and advise on the disposition of documents that had been accumulated by the government.
Returning to the University of Oregon after the war, Barnett continued to work with Pacific cultures. He carried out field work in the Palau Islands under the sponsorship of the National Research Council, served as staff anthropologist for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and was a consultant for the government of Netherlands New Guinea. In the 1960s, he directed a program of research among communities of the Pacific displaced because of natural disasters and atomic bomb tests.
Scope and Contents
The Homer Garner Barnett papers, 1934-1973, contain papers, photographs, slides, maps, periodicals, field notes and copies of studies done by others. Dr. Barnett, an ethnologist, anthropologist, author and teacher spent his early professional years, 1934-1943, studying Northwest Coast Indians. After the second World War, her focused on Micronesia, especially Palau, and later Netherlands New Guinea, now known as West Irian. It was during this time that he observed at close hand and became an expert in cultural change.
Between 1947 and 1970, years of drastic change for natives of Oceania, Dr. Barnett made three long stays and many shorter ones in the islands. He used his research in writing, teaching, and consulting.
His early study of Yurok, Hupa, Karok, Nuqually, Oakville and Skopomish Indians is contained in research notebooks, field notebooks and photographs. There is an interesting section on Indian Shakerism (not related to the Shaker Movement of the East). One notebook records his experience while conducting a class at Berkeley in 1943 on inter-cultural exchange of information. The later field notebooks record his observations while on Palau and New Guinea. There are also approximately 900 slides that he used in class lectures.
Dr. Barnett amassed a large collection of scholarly papers and periodicals dealing with the South Pacific area, especially during the years 1952-1960. There are a few publications in Japanese reflecting the interests of the prior trustees of Palau. There are significant numbers of scientific papers in Dutch on natives of New Guinea. He also preserved interesting examples of literature in Palauan, pidgin English and Papuan.
There is no personal correspondence other than that pertaining to setting up a study of displaced communities in the South Pacific. This study was funded over a 5-year period by the National Science Foundation. The resulting papers are on deposit at the University of Oregon.
Dr. Barnett spent 2 years (1944-1946) as Senior Fellow in ethnogeography at the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE). There are no papers in this collection dating from those years, but the BAE Correspondence files contain letters to and from Barnett during this period.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement
The Homer Garner Barnett papers are arranged in the following series:
(1) Material relating to the "Displaced Communities" Study, 1963-1970;
(2) Writings, 1938-1959;
(3) Field notebooks, 1934-circa 1955;
(4) Dissertation notebooks, undated;
(5) Linguistic material, 1941-1965;
(6) Scholarly serials and periodicals, 1950-1971;
(7) Processed and printed items, 1942-1974;
(8) Photographs, 1895-1955;
(9) Micronesian Monthly/Reporter, 1951-1963;
(10) Quarterly Bulletin of the South Pacific Commission, 1953-1963;
(11) Photographic slides, 1947-1953;
(12) Maps, 1887-1959
Conditions Governing Access
The Homer Garner Barnett papers are open for research.
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Preferred Citation
Homer Garner Barnett Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Processing Information
Updated and revised by G. Yiotis and S. McElrath, May 2001
Encoded by Elizabeth Bauerle, December 2011
Conditions Governing Use
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Related Materials
In 1939, Dr. Barnett was the director of an archeological excavation in the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. The report of this dig is NAA MS 4070. Another paper Barnett wrote, Yakima Indians in 1942 is NAA MS 4867.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Dr. Homer G. Barnett donated this collection to the National Anthropological Archives in 1975.
Hawaii
Religion
Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea)
Palauans
Indians of North America -- California
Language and languages -- Documentation
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
Indians of North America -- Plateau
Ponape
Yurok
Coast Salish
Potlatch
Shakers (American Indian)
American Indian
Yapese (Micronesian people)
Hupa
Yakama (Yakima)
University of California, Berkeley. Far Eastern Language and Area Training Program
Materials relating to "Displaced Communities" study
Series 1
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0.062 Linear feet
1963 - 1970
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Scope and Contents
Official correspondence, project proposal, reports, and residence permits. The correspondence (some of which is in duplicate) is left grouped in Dr. Barnett's arrangement. The project to study cultural change and stability in displaced communities in the South Pacific area was funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal was to send graduate student field workers to specific areas which were inhabited by displaced native groups --some for reasons for volcanic activity, some for governmental reasons such as atomic testing, some for reasons of weather such as drought and do an intensive study. The students returned to the University of Oregon where they produced reports. These reports are on deposit at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. The project proposal also includes detailed curriculum vitae for Dr. Barnett, his associated in Australia and the U.S. Trust Territory, Cyril Belshaw, Leonard Mason, Henry Evans Maude, and James Spillius.
There are 8 annual reports which cover the 5 years of the study and 3 years of "wrap-up" including lists of the publications which grew out of this study.
Arrangement
Arranged by type, then chronologically.
Correspondence
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1
Project Proposal
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1
Progress Reports
Acknowledging letters from NSF
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1963 - 1970
1
Writings
Series 2
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0.208 Linear feet
1938-1959
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Scope and Contents
"The Innovative Process" is a reprint from Alfred L. Kroeber: A Memorial, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, No. 25, Fall 1961, 18pp. It is the only published item. The Nature and Function of the Potlatch was Barnett's Ph. D. dissertation written in 1938 and reproduced by the University of Oregon in 1968. The Yakima Indians of 1942 is a partial duplicate of NAA MS 4867. It lacks the resume pages and photographs. There is a 13-page mimeo report written by Dr. Barnett for the Governor of Netherlands New Guinea. It was based on a visit he made June-August 1955 with the purpose of observing existing conditions among Papuans and how these conditions affected administrative planning and execution. This item was found folded inside the field notebooks marked "Netherlands New Guinea" in Series 3.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by title.
"The Innovative Process"
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1
The Nature and Function of the Potlatch, PhD dissertation
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1938
1
Existence and Location of Copies
Reproduced by University of Oregon, 1968
Observations in Selected Administrative Problems
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1
The Yakima Indians in 1942
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1959
1
Existence and Location of Copies
Reproduced by the Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1959.
Palauan Journal
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1
Field notebooks
Series 3
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0.42 Linear feet
1934-circa 1955
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Scope and Contents
These 14 notebooks are equally divided between Barnett's two geographic areas of specialization --Northwest Coast Indians and South Pacific natives. The Indian notes were done between 1934 and 1943. The Palauan observations were made probably during 1947 and 1948, although the notebooks are not dated. The New Guinea notes are dated 1955. There is an interesting notebook made when Dr. Barnett taught a class in intercultural exchange at Berkeley in 1943. Notes on Indian Shakerism can be found in "Yakima" Book 2, p. 131. Miscellaneous papers and a card found folded inside the books are in a separate folder. Each item contains information in brackets as to where it was found. Illustrations of the material covered in the notebooks can be found in Series 8, Photographs, and Series 11, Photographic Slides. Dr. Barnett's published works draw heavily from the material in this series.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by title.
Indian Tribes of the Oregon Coast - Books 1 & 2
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1934
2
Indians of Northwest California:
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Book 1 - Yurok
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1937 - 1938
2
Book 2 - Hupa
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1937 - 1938
2
Book 3 - Yurok and Karok
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1937 - 1938
2
Netherlands New Guinea
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1955
2
Palau 1
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2
Palau: field notes
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2
Palau, non-material culture
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3
Untitled
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1943
3
Scope and Contents
Inside front cover indicates notes made while teaching A.S.T.P. course in Far Eastern language on inter-cultural information exchange in 1943 at University of California at Berkeley.
Yakima: also Oakville, Nuqually, Skopomish
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1942 - 1943
3
Papers found folded inside the above
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3
General
Pencilled information in brackets indicates where each item was found.
Dissertation notebooks
Series 4
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0.167 Linear feet
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Scope and Contents
The research done by Barnett in other publications, which served as background for his Ph.D. dissertation, is found here. This is valuable for anyone reading his Nature and Function of the Potlatch, Series 2, and any of his field notebooks dated prior to 1938, Series 3. Illustrations can be found in Series 8, Coast Salish Indians in British Columbia.
Arrangement
Arranged according to author's numbering.
Dissertation notebooks:
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Book 1
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4
Book 2
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4
Book 3
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4
Book 4
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4
Book 5
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4
"The House Building"
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4
"The Chiefs' Dwelling"
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4
"Conflict of Native Custom and English law over house occupation," by Viola Garfield
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4
Linguistic materials
Series 5
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0.167 Linear feet
1941 - 1965
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Scope and Contents
Primers, dictionaries, word lists, research on linguistic methods, and newspapers (if in an indigenous dialect) are in this group. Not every item is complete in and of itself. There is a predominance of items produced by missionary endeavor. The Palauan section contains 15 separate items ranging from Psalm I to a reprint of BAE Bulletin article entitled "A Caroline Islands Script" by Saul Riesenberg and Shigeru Kaneshiro. The New Guinea pidgin English collection consists of 9 items. A small collection, 3 items, deals with research in Papuan.
Arrangement
Arranged by language group.
Palauan
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4
Palauan Grammar & Word list
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undated
Palauan - English.
4
List of Animals in Palau Islands by S. Murakami and T. Eskaki
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4
Scope and Contents
Scientific name followed by Paulauan name. Arranged by species.
VI. Palau Grammatical Notes. Navy C.N.O.
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1944 June 20
4
Belau Grammar. Phrases
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4
Wordlist - A typescript with words. English-Palau
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4
Scope and Contents
Beginning with "Fruit" and ending with "On."
TLUNGALEK 'RA IUNGS (An Island family)
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1950
4
Bible translations by Protestant Mission of Palau:
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Genesis
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1941
4
Psalm I
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1943
4
Catechism
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4
Luke
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1942
4
General
Printed in Tokyo.
Dictionary: German - Palau
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undated
4
General
Includes phrase list.
"A Caroline Islands Script" Saul Riesenberg and Shigeru Kaneshiro. Anthropology Papers No. 60 BAE Bulletin 173
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1960
4
Palau news. Koror, Palau
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1952 December 8
1953 January 19
4
Pidgin English:
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Lutheran Mission Press. New Guinea. Liklik Lotu Buk by Rev. J. Sievert (Small Church Service Book) 3rd ed
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1959
4
Stori Bilong Krismas
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1962
4
Stori Bilong Martin Luther
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1962
Pink cover.
4
Stori Bilong Martin Luther
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1958
Yellow cover.
4
New Guinea Times Courier. Pidgin News Supplement
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1961 August 30
1962 February 14
1962 July 11
4
New Gini Toktok. Oktoba 27
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1965
4
British & Foreign Bible Society. Gud Nius Mak I Raitim
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1961
4
Papuan:
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Methods and Materials for recording Papuan New Guinea Languages. A. Capell.
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1951
4
Dutch Preliminary Results of an Official Language Research Inquiry in New Guinea. H.K.J. Cowan
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1953
4
Workshop Papers in Summer Institute of
Linguistics, New Guinea Branch, Ukarumpa,
Territory of New Guinea
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1964
4
Scholarly serials and periodicals
Series 6
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0.54 Linear feet
1950 - 1971
Scope and Contents
Publications of scholarly value issued as part of a discernible series by educational, professional and quasi-governmental groups. Some of the publications are listings of members with their areas of specialization. Material found in Series 7, Netherlands New Guinea section, contains much of ethnological, anthropological and linguistic interest as well. The periodicals found in Series 9 and Series 10 are more general in coverage but very similar in subject. The "folder list" has an item by item record of this series.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name of issuing organization.
Australian National University. Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, Geography and Pacific History of the Research School of Pacific Studies. Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea:
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Erap Mechanical Farming Project
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1963 April
5
Land, work and Productivity at Inonda
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1963 August
5
Communal Cash Cropping among the Orokaiva
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1964 May
5
Australian School of Pacific Administration for the Administrative Staff of Papua-New Guinea. Bi-monthly issuance. South Pacific:
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Vol. 4, #5
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1950 April
5
Vol. 5 #1
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1951
5
Vol. 6 #1- Vol. 10 #7
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1952 - 1959
5
Arrangement
Numbering is not consistent. There is a separate index for Vol. 6.
Pacific Scientific Information Centre.Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HA:
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Pacific Anthropologists
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1962
1964
1971
5
Land in Micronesia and its Resources: An Annotated Bibliography. E. H. Bryan
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1970
5
Pacific Science Association:
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Coral Reef Newsletter
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1973 July
5
Extracts from the Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Science Congress.
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1953
5
New Guinea Research Project. Progress Report #4
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5
"An Interpretation of 'Native Customs' in a Changing Oceanic Society." Leonard Mason
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1961
6
South Pacific Commission. Annual Report. Progress in the South Pacific
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1959 - 1962
6
South Pacific Commission. Social Development Section:
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Project S2, A. L. Moore,
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1950
6
Scope and Contents
An Investigation of the Possibilities of, and Existing Facilities Afforded by Visual Aids in the Education of Dependent Peoples, Especially Illiterate Peoples of the South Pacific Area.
Project S9, Howard Hayden, Supplement to Progress Reports No. 11. Moturiki Community Development Project.
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1950 July
6
Project S10, Felix M. Keesing, Report No. 1
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1951
6
Scope and Contents
Some Notes and Suggestions regarding Conservation of Important Archaeological Sites and Objects in South Pacific Territories.
Social Development Notes No.7, Supplement No. 17 to Progress Reports. Research Workers in the South Pacific.
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1951 December
6
South Pacific Commission. Social Development Section:
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Project S20, Interim Report. Dr. F.J. Harlow, Central Vocational Training Institution.
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1952
6
Social Development Notes No. 9, Progress Report Supplement No. 19.
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6
Scope and Contents
The Further Education Movement in the Cook Islands.
Report on Project S20, Dr. F.J. Harlow, Central Vocational Training Institution.
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1953 February
6
Report on Project S11, South Pacific Literature Bureau. Bruce Roberts, The Provision of Literature in Western Samoa.
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1953 February
6
Social Development Circular No. 14. G.N.
Nettleton, Cottage Housing Scheme.
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1953 February
6
Nutrition Project, Report of F. E. Peters, Visit to Laboratories Overseas.
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1953 October
6
Health Committee, Project H8, Malaria. Preliminary Report on Malaria in the Trobriand Islands (Territory of Papua and New Guinea).
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1952 September
6
A document which seems to deal with Project S9, Moturiki Community Development Project.
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1950 March
6
South Pacific Commission; technical papers:
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No. 8, F. Cohic, Insect Pests in the Wallis Islands and Futuna.
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1950 December
6
No. 29, current research in the South Pacific in the Field of Economic Development.
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1952 July
6
No. 30, Ida Leeson, comp. Bibliography of cargo cults and other nativistic movements in the South Pacific:
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1952 July
6
No. 33, Robert H. Black, a survey of malaria in the British Solomon Islands protectorate.
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1952 November
6
No. 34, L.J. Dumbleton, rhinoceros beetle in the kingdom of Tonga.
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1952 November
6
Scope and Contents
A report on a visit to Vavau In August 1952.
No. 41, Rev. R.L. Challis, social problems of non-maori polynesians in New Zealand.
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1953 January
6
No. 42, Registry of co-operative societies, Port Moresby.
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1953 February
6
Scope and Contents
The co-operative movement in Papua and New Guinea; a review of the history, present situation and possible future development of co-operation in Papua and New Guinea.
No. 45, Dr. J. van Baal, The Nimboran Community Development Project.
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1953 June
6
No. 49, R.R. Solenberger, The Social and Cultural Position of Micronesian Minorities on Guam.
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1953 October
6
No. 51, A Bibliography of Co-operation in the
South Pacific, rev. ed. (An update of Social
Development Notes No. 3)
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6
No. 52, Social Science Research in the Pacific
Islands. Rev. ed. of technical paper #20.
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1953 December
6
No. 74, R. Thomson, Educational Aspects of
Community Development (New Guinea and
Papua).
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1955 January
6
No. 84, H. Belshaw, The Communities Project
Approach to Economic Development.
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1955 July
6
No. 99, Camilla H. Wedgwood, Education in the Pacific Islands: a selective bibliography.
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1956 November
6
No. 102, Index of Social Science Research Theses on the South Pacific.
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1957 April
6
No. 103, Nancy Phelan, How to Make Your Own Posters.
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1957 May
6
No. 114, Karel Neijs, An Experimental Course in Adult Literacy. Papua & New Guinea.
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1958 January
6
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 primers inserted in back cover.
No. 122, Social Development in the South Pacific.
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1958 May 16 - 1958 May 28
7
Scope and Contents
Report of the 9th meeting of the South Pacific Commission Research Council held at Noumea
No. 127, Social Science Research in the Pacific Islands. Revised edition of technical paper No. 98.
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1959 September
7
No. 133, Education Seminar for the South Pacific.R, from Nov.16-27, 1959. (Dec. 1960)
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1960 December
7
Scope and Contents
Report and recommendations of the Regional Education Seminar held under the S.P.C. auspices
at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane Australia.
No. 135, Social Science Research in the Pacific Islands.
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1961 June
7
Scope and Contents
Revised edition of Technical Paper #127.
No. 135, supplement
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1961 November
7
No. 137, Urbanization in the South Pacific.
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1962 August
7
Scope and Contents
Report and recommendations of the Urbanization Advisory Committee meeting.
No. 152, Urban problems in the South Pacific.
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1963 - 1967
7
Scope and Contents
Reprint of articles from South Pacific bulletin.
Processed and printed items
Series 7
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1.08 Linear feet
1942 - 1974
Arrangement
Arranged according to geographical area and then by date if possible. Undated items are grouped at the end.
Scope and Contents
This group covers the widest range of items from a rare Japanese language volume on Palauan myths to table place mats printed with the Lord's Prayer in Chinook. There is a set of directives and regulations for the Naval administration of the then (1946) newly acquired islands of Micronesia. These islands were mandated to the United States as a trust territory after the second World War. They had been a Japanese mandate between the two wars. Micronesia is now officially called the Federated States of Micronesia. The Marianas voted to become a territory of the U.S., a decision which some feel was forced on them by U.S. needs for a secure strategic base in the Western Pacific.
There are newsletters, a calendar, newsclippings, reports and reflections of attempts made by the U.S. to administer the disparate islands flung over an area as large as the U.S. itself. Of significance to researchers is the material relating to Netherlands New Guinea. Under the Dutch form of colonial government, the Bureau of Native Affairs was really a research institute, which also acted as an official advisory body. In 1955, Dr. Barnett served as a consultant. His report is found in Series 2 and contains a warning on the influences, which would soon change that area into West Irian.
U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific:
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Naval Administration of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific.
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7
Hoover Institute, school of naval administration.
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7
Hoover Institute, School of naval administration. Comander Mariana.
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7
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
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7
Trust Territory, Deputy High Commissioner, Guam, M.I.
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7
Register of Chiefs, Palau
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7
General
found with above
U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific -- General, West & East Carolines:
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John Sandelman
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7
Scope and Contents
Some observations on the problem of self-government in the trust territory of the Pacific Islands.
W. Lessa
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1955 September
7
Scope and Contents
population on Ulithi.
Hunt, Kidder, and Schneider
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1954 February
7
Scope and Contents
the de-population of Yap.
Saturday Evening Post magazine article
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7
Scope and Contents
newsclipping from Honolulu advertiser newsletters from Ponape
Trust Territory -- Palau, Japanese language publications:
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Hijikata Hisakatsu, myths and legends of Palau.
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1942
7
Hisakatsu, The Palauan people viewed from the legends attached to material objects
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7
Hisakatsu, religion and belief in the past Palauan
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7
Sugiara, social organization in Palau
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7
Trust Territory -- Palau, English publications:
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Newsletter
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7
Calendar
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7
Kubary, The Religion of the Palauans
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7
General
reprint
South Pacific Community Project S12 (Welfare Center) in Koror.
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7
General
see typescript notes by Barnett.
"The Koror Community Center"
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16 Photographs
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7
Trust Territory -- Marshall Islands, Guam:
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Coconut Rendezvous Club constitution
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7
Marshallese Congress proceedings 1952-53
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1952 - 1953
7
Coote, a report on land-use conditions and land problems on Guam
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1951
7
Navy News
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7
Newsclippings
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7
Netherlands New Guinea:
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Elmberg, Tales and Myths
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1949
7
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collected at Nimboran Gressi and Japsi
Galis, Bibliography of Netherlands New Guinea
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1951
Dutch; Flemish.
7
Galis, Supplement I to bibliography
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1952
Dutch; Flemish.
7
Netherlands New Guinea:
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Pouwer, Procedural Methods for Ethnological Studies
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1954
8
Van der Leeden, native justice in inland Sarmi
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1954
8
Van der Leeden, sarmi area dialect
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1954
8
Elmberg, notes on Mejbrat people of the Ajamaroe district
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1954
8
Netherlands New Guinea department of internal affairs, Bureau of native affairs. Yearbook
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1960
8
Scope and Contents
Includes bibliography on anthropology, linguistics and cultural anthropology.
School, culture and cultural change in the Muyu region.
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1962
8
Scope and Contents
Abstracted in English by Broekhoff.
M. Peters
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1959 July - 1961 April
1965
8
Scope and Contents
Description of Certain Aspects of Social and Religious Life of Dani-group in Baliem Valley, W. Irian. Dutch with Danish and English Summary.
K. Groenewegen and D.J. van de Kaa
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8
Scope and Contents
Results of demographic research project for W. New Guinea. Dutch with English summary.
Report on Netherlands New Guinea to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
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1955
8
Netherlands New Guinea administrative anthropologists reports.
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1953 - 1960
A typed volume of English summaries of the original papers in Dutch.
8
Netherlands New Guinea administrative anthropologists reports:
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Boelaars, socio-economic structure of the Jaqai
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1955
8
Zegwaard and Boelaars, social structure of the
natives of asmat.
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1955
8
Vriens and Boelaars, the social structure of the auwju.
Archival Resource Key
1954
8
Galis, sociological notes of the sentani territory.
Archival Resource Key
1956
8
Netherlands New Guinea administrative anthropologists [Dutch text Reports 5-9]:
Archival Resource Key
Pouwer, rights of agriculture, fishing, gathering and hunting in the Mimika subdivision.
Archival Resource Key
1953
9
Pouwer, The Social and Ritual Markings of Death.
Archival Resource Key
1954
9
Verschueren, Human Sacrifice on the South Coast of Netherlands New Guinea.
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
Vriens and Boelaars, The Primitive Economy of the Auwju and Bamgi-ia in the Mappi Subdivision.
Archival Resource Key
1955
9
Pouwer, Problem of the Kain Timoer in the Mejbrat Area.
Archival Resource Key
1961
9
Netherlands New Guinea - general and undated:
Archival Resource Key
Historical survey of inhabitants of the Kamora- Vlatke in the Mimika subdivision.
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
Van Baal, peoples of papua
Archival Resource Key
undated
Dutch with English summary.
9
Pouwer, Practical Hints for the Ethnological Field Worker.
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
Schoorl, report on conditions and relations in the settlements of native workers employed by the Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum company.
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
Lucas, report on a survey of social conditions of the Papuan city, Hollandia.
Archival Resource Key
9
Part II supplement information on co-operative development in territory of New Guinea.
Archival Resource Key
1951 - 1952
9
Papua and New Guinea, Australia:
Archival Resource Key
Paul Hasluck, speeches and statements
Archival Resource Key
1961
9
Miscellaneous papers and booklets:
Archival Resource Key
9
Archives and documents: micro-edition
Archival Resource Key
1974
9
Eliz. Weber, TheDuk-Duks: Primitive and Historic Types of Citizenship. University of Chicago Press.
Archival Resource Key
1929
9
Wm. Mulloy, Preliminary Report of the Restoration of the Ahu Huri a Urenga and two unnamed Ahu at Hanga Kio'e, Easter Island.
Archival Resource Key
1973
9
Fiji Government Printing Department, Publication Bulletin.
Archival Resource Key
1962
9
University of Auckland, progress report of South Pacific programme committee.
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
Letter to Barnett signed Ph. B. Fogg
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
Three Place mats with Lord's prayer in Chinook printed on face.
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circa 1959
9
Photographs
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
0.292 Linear feet
1895 - 1955
undated
Scope and Contents
Photographic prints and some negatives; some mounted and some loose are in this series. The folder containing photographs of Yakima Indians are duplicates of those included in NAA. Ms. 4867. They are also reproduced in his book, Indian Shakers. Dr. Barnett's indications of whether or not he took the photograph are reflected in the folder list.
Arrangement
Arranged by geographic area.
Yakima Indians of Washington, by Barnett
Archival Resource Key
42 Photographs
1942
13
Scope and Contents
Seven pages of photos, each with 6 photos interspersed
with identification.
Duplicates those in NAA Ms. #4867
Negatives; Small box with duplicate prints and
Negatives.
Ulimang, Palau Island by Barnett and Al Murphy
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
Scope and Contents
9 pages of blue poster paper, some newsclippings, some
identification.
Yap and Ponape by Barnett
Archival Resource Key
16 Photographs
1953
13
Scope and Contents
Black & white with identification on reverse.
Coast Salish Indians of British Columbia
Archival Resource Key
11 Photographs
4 Negatives (photographic)
undated
13
Scope and Contents
None by Barnett. Identification on reverse in most cases.
Netherlands New Guinea, Sarmi Area natives.
Archival Resource Key
16 Photographs
undated
13
Scope and Contents
Not by Barnett --accompanying letter provides source. Black and white prints. Two copies of each.
Netherlands New Guinea, Wissel Lakes and Baliem Valley.
Archival Resource Key
11 Photographs
undated
13
Scope and Contents
Not by Barnett. Picture postcard with message on reverse and black and white prints with identification on reverse.
Miscellaneous pictures of museum pieces.
Archival Resource Key
14 Photographs
undated
13
Scope and Contents
Not by Barnett.
14 black & white prints with identification on reverse.
Subject areas include Fiji, Solomons, New Guinea, New
Ireland, and Hawaii.
Micronesian Monthly/Reporter
Series 9
Archival Resource Key
0.42 Linear feet
1951-1963
Scope and Contents
A newsletter in mimeo form issued monthly until March/April 1956 when it changed its name to Micronesian Reporter and became a bi-monthly publication. It was edited by the staff of the headquarters of the U.S. Trust Territory in Saipan. Subjects covered include current policy, reports, illustrations and, of course, news.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Micronesian Monthly.
Archival Resource Key
1951-1956
10
Scope and Contents
Missing: Vol. I #3-6, 10-11; Vol. III #2, 8-9;
Vol. V #6
Micronesian Reporter
Archival Resource Key
1956-1963
10
Quarterly Bulletin of the South Pacific Commission
Series 10
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0.67 Linear feet
1953-1963
Scope and Contents
The South Pacific Commission is an advisory and consultative body set up by the six governments responsible for the administration of the island territories in the South Pacific region. Its purpose is to recommend to members the means of promoting well being of the native peoples. The headquarters is at Noumea, New Caledonia. The 12 members, 2 for each government, represent Australia, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the U.S.
The Quarterly Bulletin contains articles in the three main areas of interest to the Commission --economic development, health and social development. They often comment on the projects discussed in the Technical Papers and Social Development Notes of the South Pacific Commission in Series 6.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
S.P.C. Quarterly Bulletin
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1953 January - 1960 October
11
S.P.C. Quarterly Bulletin
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1961-1966
12
Photographic slides
Series 11
Archival Resource Key
900 Slides
1947-1953
undated
Scope and Contents
The subjects covered are scenes, objects, person's actions, processes of the South Pacific islands, New Guinea and the Philippines. There are a few slides of Hawaii. Two reels of color motion picture film are labeled "Philippine Dance 1947."
Some of the slides taken by Dr. Barnett in Palau in 1947 and 1948 are accompanied by coded lists, which help to identify the slides. Other slides have information written on the mounts. Subjects include geographic areas of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific, Australia, Netherlands New Guinea and the Philippines. Barnett used these slides in his class lectures. It is easy to note which were not taken by Dr. Barnett due to the difference in subject.
Arrangement
Arranged according to Barnett's coded listing.
"List A" Kodachrome slides of Palau by Barnett
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1947 - 1948
14
15
"List B" Slides of Oahu, Hawaii [Coded 27-1 thru 27-22],
Babeldaob, Palau Island
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undated
15
Scope and Contents
Including coded typewritten carbon copy lists of above slides.
Trust Territory of Pacific, Australia, New Guinea, Philippines
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undated
16
"Box A" Barnett Slides of Micronesia
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1953
17
Scope and Contents
[Includes coded list]
"Box B" Barnett Slides of Australia, New Guinea, Philippines
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undated
18
Scope and Contents
Each slide is identified on mount.
"Box C" Barnett slides
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undated
18
Scope and Contents
In some cases these slides were used in his class lectures. Non-Barnett slides feature different subject matter.
Maps
Series 12
Archival Resource Key
0.021 Linear feet
1887 - 1959
undated
Scope and Contents
The seven maps in this series divide into two areas. The first group of maps shows location of Indian reservations in the U.S. in 1887 and another gives the occurrence of Indian languages in North America, the 1941 Voegelin map. There are also two survey maps of the Straits of Georgia, British Columbia. The second group of maps includes Malaya, language occurrence in Papua-New Guinea, and the islands of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific.
Arrangement
Arranged geographically.
Location of Indian Reservations in U.S., John Atkins Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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1887
(10 miles = 1/8 inch)
NAA.1975-17
North American Indian Languages, Voegelin,
American Ethnological Society
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1941
(500 miles = 4 inches)
NAA.1975-17
Department of Lands -- Powell Lake, G.G. Aitken
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1923
(Scale 1:253440)
NAA.1975-17
Department of Lands -- Strait of Georgia
Archival Resource Key
undated
NAA.1975-17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Part of map is cut off. Perhaps same map as above.
Malaya
Archival Resource Key
1933
(18 miles = 1 inch)
NAA.1975-17
Languages of Eastern, Western and Southern Highlands, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, S.A. Wurm, Australian National University
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1958 May-1959 January
(10 meters = 1 centimeter)
NAA.1975-17
Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
Archival Resource Key
1947
Very little detail.
NAA.1975-17