It is with great satisfaction that we can announce that the OAS Journal is finally to join its peers in cyberspace. The OAS Committee, after protracted discussion, has decided to place the full version of back copies of the Journal on the new website constructed by web designer, Andrew Drane. Editions of the Journal for […]
Cultural Treasures of the Lower Sepik River, PNG
By Chris Boylan The National Cultural (Preservation) Act of 1965 was the strongest comprehensive legislation protecting the cultural heritage of Papua New Guinea ever enacted. In the years that followed, staff from the National Museum and Art Gallery of PNG and anthropologists in the field began to document important cultural objects still held by traditional […]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part III
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 […]