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Sago storage jar from Aibom Village, Sepik River Valley, Papua New Guinea. | ||
Oceanic Anthropology
Section
The major subject areas covered by the Oceanic Anthropology section are the material culture, Kastom and social history of Queensland’s Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander communities; the material culture of the Melanesian peoples of the south-west Pacific; and the social history of Queensland’s colonial and post-colonial interaction with these, our nearest island neighbours, including those Pacific Islander communities now resident in Queensland.
Our current work
A catalogue of the comprehensive Papuan ethnographic collection collected by Sir William Macgregor between 1889 and 1898, and the near completion of the repatriation of a major part of that collection to the National Museum of Papua New Guinea. Other projects include documentation of the Museum's Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander collections.