Cambridge University Library - Arthur Bernard Deacon - Papers, 1907-1934

M 2520-2521

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432855

Microfilm : M 2520-2521. See contents list (7pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, Vol. 12.

microfilm reels 35 mm

Anthropologist. Travelled to Malekula, Northern New Hebrides in 1926 to make an ethnographical study, visiting Bushman's Bay, Atchin, Big Nombas Territory and Ambrym. He died of blackwater fever in 1927

The papers include : biographical notes, correspondence and press cuttings re Deacon and the publication of "Malekula : a vanishing people in New Hebrides", 1926-34 ; correspondence of Deacon with Haddon and others ; correspondence between Haddon and A. Radclifle Brown re Deacon , 1927-31 ; other correspondence to Haddon re Deacon ; press cuttings on New Hebrides and Deacon's death ; Correspondence from Deacon's parents to Haddon ; bank statements re A.B. Deacon Fund ; photographs ; Malekula vocabulary ; notes by Deacon on Malekula ; maps of Malekula ; notes by Haddon and Camilla Wedgwood from Deacon's work ; notes on Malekula languages and customs and other papers

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
The Deacon papers form part of the Haddon papers at Cambridge University Library
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2520-2521
Microfilm copy of originals held by Cambridge University, Cambridge
Descriptive list available (7 p.)