Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part VII
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 …
After attaining a degree in Anthropology and a Diploma of Education in the early 1960s, Barry spent three years teaching at Telefomin in the middle of New Guinea. He carried out research on the material culture of the region in his spare time. Barry continued this research in the central New Guinea–upper Sepik region (1967–1969) while earning his keep as an economics Research Assistant at Macquarie University. He attended post-graduate courses in art history at New York University, Columbia University and Yale (1969–1971). During 1972–1973, Barry did fieldwork in the upper Sepik region. He taught courses in the art of Africa, Oceania and Pre-Columbian America at the University of Southern California (1975–1976). Barry returned to Australia (1977) to Adelaide and worked in market research/management consulting until taking the position of Curator of Anthropology at the PNG National Museum (1980). He returned to Adelaide in 1984 and worked in Community Health Research until obtaining a position in 1988 with the Aboriginal Family History Project at the South Australian Museum. He was appointed Curator of Foreign Ethnology at the Museum in 1995.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …