Photographs, typescript articles, correpondence, diaries, notes and ephemera documenting personal experiences of colonial administration and general life in Papua New Guinea. The collection was assembled by Dr Peter Cahill, from material donated by members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia. Some slides of the Middle East, Australia, England and Ireland.
Bulk of papers from period 1930s-1950s.
Includes explanatory notes by Dr Peter Cahill.

This collection is comprised of Pamela Lukin Watson’s papers from her career as an anthropologist. The materials in each series typically include drafts of writings, research notes, correspondence, photographs and research materials. They relate to the author’s PhD thesis (based off her field work in Biwat, Papua New Guinea), her 1998 publication Frontier lands and pioneer legends: how pastoralists gained Karuwali land and the author’s other work in the field of ethnopharmacology.