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Title
Date(s)
- 1884-1977. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
13 boxes, 2 parcels.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Colonial administrator and amateur anthropologist Arthur Power Lyons was born in Bundaberg in 1879. He became Assistant Resident Magistrate in Papua in 1906, and the Resident Magistrate in the Western Division of Papua and Warden of Gold and Mineral Fields in 1909. From 1930 to 1943, Lyons was Director of Public Works for Papua, and a member of the Papuan Executive and Legislative Council. He was also Chairman of the Building and Petroleum Advisory Boards in Papua during this period. He wrote a number of anthropological reports about the people of Western Papua.
Repository
Archival history
Contains material formerly catalogued at F1232, F1236, F1406, F1407 and F1588.
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1884-1977
Collection alternatively titled as: Arthur Power Lyons Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photographs, diaries, correspondence, maps, journals, publications, annual reports, typescripts, articles relating to Papua New Guinea by Arthur Lyons, John Murphy, Daphne Winnifred Lyons, and others.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Lyons, A. P. (Arthur Power), 1879-1965 (Subject)
- Lyons, Daphne Winnifred (Subject)
- Murphy, John J. (John Joseph), 1914-1997 (Subject)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 1-Jul-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.