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Ethnography of the Mendi, Southern Highlands Expedition, Papua New Guinea - 1968-69

Archive Collections / Graeme Lloyd Pretty / Series AA 255/14 / Ethnography of the Mendi, Southern Highlands Expedition, Papua New Guinea - 1968-69

There are two notebooks labelled "Mendi:1" and "Mendi:2".
There is also a disc labelled "Ethnography of the Mendi Vols 1 & 2". This is a Word document transcription of the two notebooks done by Phil Fitzpatrick in October 2009.

  1. "Mendi:1"
    "Ethnography of the Mendi
    Southern Highlands PNG
    Vol 1"
    "GL Pretty and AL Crawford 1968-69".
    Hand-written exercise book - pages numbered 1 to 77.

    The notebook has a table of contents/index which has numbered chapters ("categories") related to daily life and the page numbers where these categories are found in the notebook. Artefacts collected during the expedition are referenced throughout the notebook by a circled field collection number, which corresponds to the numbers in the notebook titled "Field Register of Specimens" - AA255/14/10.

    There are numerous sketches throughout the notebook, as well as a loose map at the front and a loose sheet of notes at the back which looks like a checklist of things to be done.

  2. "Mendi:2"
    "Ethnography of the Mendi
    Southern Highlands PNG
    Vol 2"
    "GL Pretty and AL Crawford 1968-69".
    Hand-written exercise book - pages numbered 78 to 156.

    The first page (unnumbered) has the sub-title "Vol 1 Miscellaneous Notes".

    There is a loose index at the front comprising three sheets stapled together showing numbered chapters ("categories") related to daily life and the page numbers where these categories are found in both of the notebooks.
    As in volume 1 there are numerous sketches. Artefacts collected during the expedition are referenced throughout the notebook by a circled field collection number, which corresponds to the numbers in the notebook titled "Field Register of Specimens" - AA255/14/10.

  3. Disc labelled "Ethnography of the Mendi Vols 1 & 2". This is a Word document transcription of the two notebooks produced by Phil Fitzpatrick in October 2009.
    A copy is saved at Y:\Information Services\Confidential\Archive Collections\AA 255 PRETTY, Graeme\Southern Highlands Expedition PNG 1968-69\AA255-14-8 - Ethnography of the Mendi.

Creator: Graeme Lloyd Pretty
Control: AA 255/14/8/1-3
Date Range:  1968  -  1969
Quantity:    2  
Formats: Notebooks
Series:  AA 255/14
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