Don Marshall undertook 12 expeditions to Polynesia during the period 1951 to 1989, as follows:
1951-1953 First Expedition to Polynesia (Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Tahiti)
1954-1955 Second Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tikehau, Ra’ivavae, New Zealand, Australia, European Ethnological museums)
1957-1958 Third Expedition to Polynesia (Society Islands, Austral Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii)
1959 Fourth Polynesian Expedition (Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti, Moorea, Hawaii, Fiji)
1960 Fifth Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti)
1961 Sixth Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti)
1963 Seventh Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti)
1967 Eight Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti)
1973 Ninth Expedition to Polynesia (Hawaii, Tahiti, Easter Island)
1976 Tenth Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti, Rarotonga)
1989 Eleventh Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii)
2004 Twelth Expedition to Polynesia (Tahiti)
Journals documenting Marshall’s First to Fifth Expeditions are on this microfilm. The remaining journals and related field notes are held at the Bernice Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

• Polynesian Journal, First Expedition to Polynesia, Aug 1951-Apr 1953
• The Second Expedition to Polynesia, Peabody Museum of Salem, Nov 1954-Aug 1955
• Third Expedition to Polynesia, Jun 1957-Jun 1958
• Fourth Polynesian Expedition [French Polynesia], Jun-Oct 1959
• Journal of the Fifth Expedition to Polynesia [Papeete], May-Jul 1960
• Sixth Expedition to Polynesia, Jun-Jul 1961
See also PMB 1337, D.S. Marshall, Cook Islands Research Papers.
See Finding aids for details.