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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part VII

08/09/2017 By Barry Craig

by Barry Craig.  Continued from OAS OAS Journal Vol.22 No.3. In this issue of the OAS Journal, I provide more details of Harry’s service with the AN&MEF and a sample […]

Filed Under: Research, V22 Issue 4

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part VI

12/07/2017 By Barry Craig

The hemlaut mask from Ogilvy on the left and a hemlaut for one dancer on the right; collected by B. Craig, 1993; A.74139. Pacific Cultures Gallery, South Australian Museum.

by Barry Craig.  Continued from OAS Journal Vol.21 No.5. In this issue of the OAS Journal, I provide more details of Harry’s service with the AN&MEF and a sample of […]

Filed Under: Research, V22 Issue 3

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part V

01/11/2016 By Barry Craig

By Barry Craig.  Continued from OAS Journal Vol.21 No.3. In this issue of the OAS Journal, I provide a short biography and a sample of the collections of: Walter Mansell […]

Filed Under: Museums, V21 Issue 5

Slit Gongs of the Sepik and Madang Provinces

01/09/2016 By Barry Craig

By Barry Craig, South Australian Museum I have prepared a paper from a dataset of a large number of slit gongs of the Sepik and lower Ramu region, documented during […]

Filed Under: Artefacts, V21 Issue 4, Volume 21

Mystery Object

01/09/2016 By Barry Craig

By Barry Craig This mystery object has been donated to the South Australian Museum. The donor obtained it at a bric-a-brac shop so knew nothing about its provenance. It is […]

Filed Under: Mystery Object, V21 Issue 4, Volume 21

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part III

01/02/2016 By Barry Craig

Hunter was born in Adelaide in 1871 and served three years in the South Australian Infantry during the Boer War (1899-1902). He married in 1905 and was an accountant at […]

Filed Under: Museums, V21 Issue 1, Volume 21

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part II

01/11/2015 By Barry Craig

Backstrap loom with woven textile

By Barry Craig. Continued from the last edition of the OAS Journal In a previous issue of the OAS Newsletter, I provided an introduction to the WW1 military collectors and […]

Filed Under: Museums, V20 Issue 5, Volume 20

‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor’: The World War One Military Collections from German New Guinea in the South Australian Museum

01/09/2015 By Barry Craig

Australians landing at Kabakaul

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Gentleman, Apothecary, Ploughboy, Thief . . . Army, Navy, Medicine, Law, Church, Nobility, Nothing at all. By Barry Craig Britain declared war on Germany on 4 […]

Filed Under: All Journal Articles, Galleries, V20 Issue 4, Volume 20

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