Papua New Guinea
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Collection Creator
content: Stirling, Marion
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content: Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers
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content: Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers / Series 1: Field work
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-1996, undated
label: Date
content: bulk 1925-1928
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-24, Subseries 1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in 4 subseries: 1.1.1 Field notes and other documents, 1925-1927; 1.1.2 Correspondence, 1921-1933, undated; 1.1.3 Lecture tour, press, and miscellaneous items, 1921-1996, undated; 1.1.4 Photographs, 1925-1927, undated.

All subseries are arranged chronologically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Subseries 1.1 Papua New Guinea, 1925-1996 and undated, comprises of materials related to the 1925-1927 American-Dutch Expedition to Papua New Guinea led by Matthew Stirling. This expedition was the first to use a hydroplane to explore the interior of Dutch New Guinea. Materials include field notes, journals, correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings, and ephemera.

Subseries 1.1.1 Field notes and other documents, includes accounting of expenses, timelines, maps, ethnographic notes, vocabularies, and weather reports in addition to various journals and journal compilations and copies by both Stirling and Stanley Hedberg. Subseries 1.1.2 Correspondence primarily includes letters from Matthew Stirling to his family and letters from Stanley Hedberg to Matthew and Mrs. Stirling (Matthew's mother). Letters deal with the expedition itself along with logistics for the ensuing film/lecture tour "By Aeroplane to Pygmyland." Subseries 1.1.3 Lecture tour, press, and miscellaneous items, contains more press and schedules for the lecture tour, in addition to other miscellaneous materials related to the New Guinea expedition including research materials and articles about the expedition from the 1970s. Subseries 1.1.4 Photographs, contains photographs from the expedition including travel to and from New Guinea.