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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 of his collection in the South Australian Museum (continuing on from previous edition). Harry Lort Spencer Balfour Ogilvy Three malangan figures came from Harry (Fig. […]

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 his collection in the South Australian Museum. Harry Lort Spencer Balfour Ogilvy Harry was appointed as Captain when he enlisted with the AN&MEF and was […]

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 Balfour Ogilvy and Harry Lort Spencer Balfour Ogilvy The two Ogilvy brothers from Renmark will be considered together but as Parts 5, 6. They both […]

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 field surveys in 1981, 1982 and 1983, to demonstrate slit gong variations and their repertoire of sculptural form. That paper has too many images to […]

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 41 cm long, the handle is a heavy hardwood 5 cm diameter, the diorite stone is socketed into the handle and is not an axe […]

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 the time of enlistment in the AN&MEF in October 1914. He was immediately given the rank of Sergeant, promoted to Lieutenant a year later and […]

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 the collections of things that came to the South Australian Museum. In this issue I provide a sample of the biography and collections of Arnold […]

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 August 1914 and on 12 August, an Australian naval force entered Blanche Bay and disabled the German telephone services at Rabaul and Herbertshöhe. Recruitment for […]

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

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