Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

CollectionMS 1189 - Papers on the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
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Item114b - Malaita – various documents. Reports on ‘Political and Native Affairs’ in Malaita, Oct 1950, Nov 1950, Mar 1951, May? 1951, Oct? 1951, Feb 1952; Malaita census documents; T. Russell, “Talk written for broadcast by VOJ2 Honiara – Native Cults and Movements in the Pacific”, Malu’u, Sep 1949, Ts., 4pp.; Meyer Fortes, lecture on the study of kinship given at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Oxford, 1950, Ts., 13pp.; various other reports on Malaita, n.d., and other documents.
Item115 - “Solomon Islands Tales etc.” Various – including, “Megapod Fields of Savo Island”, Ts., 10pp.; “Note on the primitive money of Choiseul”, Ts., 8pp.; Hocart, “Katapana – Bush People – Iliganigani”, Ts., carbon, 13pp; and others. 18 legends from various parts of the Solomon Islands, mainly transcribed in Mar 1950, Ts., carbon, 43pp.
Item116 - W.J. Marquand, Admin. Officer, BSIP. 2nd Devonshire Course Paper, London, 1949/50, “Community Development in the BSIP with particular reference to the Marching Rule”, Ts., 54pp.
Item117 - “Report of Social Survey undertaken at Hauhui”, Auki, Ts., 23pp. + appendices.
Item118 - Malaita Council papers. Ten point manifesto, n.d., Ts, 4pp.; The Federal Council decision, Ts., 1p.; Malaita Decision for One Head of the Island, Ts., 1p, incomplete.
Item119 - Malaita – anthropological notes, Mss.
Item120 - BSIP File Q/1. Special Lands Commission quarterly and final reports. Outline of a brief; ‘A Note on Native Custom in respect to the tenure of Trees and Forests’; text of speech; report of investigations in the Western Solomons, 30 Sep 1953; report (Ysabel) to 31 Dec 1953; report (Central District) to 31 Mar 1954; Report on Crown and Native land lease policy, 31 May 1954, Ts., 77pp.
Item121 - BSIP. File G/1. Correspondence of the Solomons Islands Special Lands Commissioner, C.H. Allan; 38 items, including a Kieta language wordlist and letter written in Roviana language, 30 Jun 1954, Ts. & Ms.
Item122 - Special Lands Commissioner: Diary. Ts.
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Reports

Malaita Council papers. Ten point manifesto, n.d., Ts, 4pp.; The Federal Council decision, Ts., 1p.; Malaita Decision for One Head of the Island, Ts., 1p, incomplete.