H 2301: Archaeology of Arnhem Land and Economic Life of Arnhem Land Tribes, including Australian Museum, Sydney, correspondence, 1947-1960

MLMSS 3188 ADD-ON 1350/H 2301

series

1947-1960

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

1059150

Digitised

0.185 metres of textual material (1 box)
41 photographs

Frederick D. McCarthy was employed by the Australian Museum, College Street, Sydney for 44 years and was Curator of the Anthropology Department from 1941-1964

In 1964 McCarthy left the Australian Museum and was appointed the Foundation Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal studies, which he held until retirement in 1971

Reference:
Australian Museum http://australianmuseum.net.au/Fred-McCarthy/ (Accessed 9 December 2013)

Folder 1
'The Archaeology of Arnhem Land', written by Frederick McCarthy, Curator of Anthropology, Australian Museum, Sydney and Frank Setzler, Head Curator, Department of Anthropology, U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. This document includes Aboriginal vocabulary for tools, pp.1-107, 1950

'The Archaeology of Arnhem Land', written by Frederick McCarthy - cancelled pages [draft typescript with manuscript annotations]

Folder 2
Eighteen photographs of museum displays of earthenware similar to Philippine native ware from Makassan sites on Winchelsea Island and the island in Port Bradshaw; stone implements from Milingimbi and Oenpelli; Ming blue and white porcelain, 15th-16th century A.D.; three thin stoneware sherds similar to Yueh, Chekiang Province, ranging in time from T'ang to Sun dynasty

Folder 3
Seventeen photographs of Methodist Mission buildings at Milingimbi, August 1948, Winchilsea Island and Oenpelli, 1948.
Includes images of burial sites. Includes a portrait of 'David, Kingie, Peter, Bill, Milingimbi Island, August 1948'.

Folder 4
Correspondence with S. S. Brown, Editor, Commonwealth of Australia, News and Information Bureau, Department of the Interior, Canberra, A.C.T., 1960
'Arnhem Land Expedition - Report on Scientific Work' by Frederick D. McCarthy
'A Circumcision Ceremony and Stone Arrangement on Groote Eylandt' by Frederick D. McCarthy
'The Snake-Woman, Jiningbirna' by Frederick D. McCarthy, with an Aboriginal song text on p.2

Folder 5
'Archaeology of Arnhem Land', Australian Museum, Sydney, correspondence, 1950-1956
'Description of Stone Implements from Arnhem Land Sites, Injaluk Hill, Oenpelli', draft by Frederick D. McCarthy
Three photographs and three negatives of stone implements. Envelope containing photographs marked 'F. McCarthy Esq., Australian Museum, Sydney'

Folder 6
Economic Life of Arnhem Land Tribes, 1947-1949

Folder 7
Economic Life of Arnhem Land Tribes:
'The Time Factor in the Economic Life of Arnhem Land Tribes, with Notes on Their Ethnology' by Frederick D. McCarthy and Margaret McArthur, 1958
'Aboriginal Women and Children' by Margaret McArthur
'Archaeology of Arnhem Land', Australian Museum, Sydney, correspondence, 1950-1958

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MLMSS 3188 ADD-ON 1350/H 2301/Folder 3: Includes a photographic portrait of five First Nations men, annotated in pencil on the verso, 'Our Five Workmen left to right, David Kingie, Peter, Bill, Bininui, Milingimbi Island August 1948.'

MLMSS 3188 ADD-ON 1350/H 2301/Folder 3: Taken during the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land, 1948, attributed to Frank M. Setzler
Source: Setzler, Frank M. Photographs taken during the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land, ca. 1948, held by the National Library of Australia; call number PIC P840/1-400 LOC P59.

The prints are most like the reject copies of those submitted for publication: An envelope with the photographs, addressed to 'Anthropological Society of New South Wales, The Australian Museum, College Street, New South Wales, Australia', is annotated in pencil with 'Rejected'.