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- 2001-2007 (Creation)
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6 items, 13 folders
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This series contains drafts, notes, research material, and correspondence. Dead birds, published by ABC Books in 2007, is set in the early days of exploration around Papua New Guinea. It is based on the 1877 journal of Italian naturalist, collector and explorer Luigi d'Albertis and his crew as they travel by boat up the Fly River in the steam launch 'Neva' collecting birds of paradise, ethnographic artifacts and undiscovered specimens. A New Guinean tribesman is killed by Albertis' crew and his head preserved in a specimen bottle. The story, narrated by the head in a jar, is a story of race relations. Included in this series are notes, research material, and drafts.
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Where possible, original order has been followed.
Box 17
Item 1: Handwritten notes in sprial notebook with photocopied research material insert, ca. 2001
Item 2: Audiocassette of taped opera music, undated
Folder 2: Research material, synopsis for novel, ca. 2001
Folder 3: Cover art, reviews of Dead birds, including a copy of 'Goodreading', Sep 2007; ABC Author agreement; email correspondence, 2007
Folder 4: Draft, typescript, 219 leaves, 2005
Folder 5: Draft of 'O my feathered river' (Dead birds), 247 leaves, 2004
Box 18
Folders 1-6: Research material on: Birds of paradise; Opera; Dante; Landtmann; Gogodala; and Williams, undated
Folders 7-9: Drafts, typescript, 2003 to [2007]
Box 19
Items 1-4: Draft for Dead birds no.'s 1-4, typescript pasted into notebooks, handwritten amendments, undated
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Audiocassette in Box 17
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Box 17 Items 1-2, Folders 2-5; Box 18 Folders 1-9; Box 19 Items 1-4.
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Created, Linda Justo 8-Oct-2019