Hunting the collectors
Subtitle: Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives
By: edited by Susan Cochrane and Max Quanchi
Contributors: Cochrane, Susan; Quanchi, Max
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Castle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781443826600
Subjects: Ethnological museums and collections; Congresses; Material culture; Conservation and restoration; Collectors and collecting; History; Research institutes; Foreign relations; Study and teaching
Notes: Papers originally presented at the inaugural conference of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS) held at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in Jan. 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hunting the collectors  -- Susan Cochrane and Max Quanchi; title: The Royal Geographic Society expedition to the Western Province of British New Guinea in the 1880's  -- Jude Philp; title: The perils of ethnographic provenance; the documentation of the Johnson Fiji collection in the South Australian Museum  -- Rod Ewins; title: In 'the land the rare bird of paradis'; Three collectors in southern New Guinea 1875-1887  -- Susan Davies; title: Career moves; German speakers in the ethnographic field  -- Regina Ganter; title: Thomas Farrell; Trading in New Ireland  -- Vicki Barnecutt; title: Missionary positions; George Brown's bodies  -- Prue Ahrens; title: A collector of images; the Pacific archive of photographer Thomas McMahon  -- Max Quanchi; title: Edgar Waite's northwest Pacific expedition of 1918; the hidden collections  -- Barry Craig; title: A Rara avis; the collecting of FE Williams, the government anthropologist of Papua and the Official Papuan Collection -- Sylvia Schaffarczyk; title: (Works of) paradise and yet; Stanley Gordon Moriarty, Tony Tuckson and the collection of Oceanic Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales  -- Natalie Wilson; title: Mr Pretty's Predicament : Ethnic art field collectors in Melanesia for the Commonwealth Arts Advisory Board, 1968-1973  -- Susan Cochrane; title: Max Ernst; artist and collector  -- Christine Dixon; title: Recollections of a Massim art collector  -- Harry Beran; title: Who is collecting Pacific Island archives in Australia now?  -- Ewan Maidment; title: The Pacific collections of the National Library of Australia; a reflection of national awareness and perception of the Pacific region  -- Susan Woodburn; title: The Banaba-Ocean Island chronicles; private collections, indigenous record keeping, fact and fiction  -- Ken Sigrah and Stacey King; title: Pacific collections in the National Museum of Australia  -- David Kaus; title: Pacific focus; Bringing knowledge about photographic collections in Australia to Pacific communities -- Tatiana Antsoupova and Ewan Maidment.