Series AA 45/3 comprises approximately 70 pencil drawings by HE Burrows showing arrangement of items in display cases for the Melanesian Hall/Pacific Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum. The drawings are numbered by case number, and show items and object numbers (numbers are in ink). The series of drawings is not complete, and they are on varying sizes of paper. These drawings were probably made by Burrows during the second half of the 1940s when he and NB Tindale (see AA 338) were re-organising and renovating the Gallery.

The arrangement of objects shown does not correspond exactly with the 2003 arrangement of objects in display cases.

For a history of the Gallery see: C Henn and B Craig, 'The Pacific Cultures Gallery in the South Australian Museum', Records of the South Australian Museum, 32 (1), 1999, pp. 69-89.