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- 1981-2015 (Creation)
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1 folder, 2 albums
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Pamela Lukin Watson was born on 23 July 1927. She worked as an anthropologist and anthropology tutor at the University of Queensland. She was awarded a pharmacy degree from the Brisbane Central Technical College (now Queensland University of Technology) in 1950. She married an American, Robert Watson, and moved to the United States for a brief period, where she worked as a tour guide of the headquarters of the United Nations. The couple returned to Australia when Robert fell ill. After his death, Watson returned to university studies as a mature-age student, completing a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Anthropology from the University of Queensland in 1980. She then earned an anthropology PhD from the University of Queensland in 1987. Her research predominately focused on ethnopharmacology in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In 1998, Watson published Frontier lands and pioneer legends: how pastoralists gained Karuwali land. The book was shortlisted for 'an outstanding contribution to Australian culture' at the 1998 Centre for Australian Cultural Studies awards.
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This series is comprised of 342 photographs, 78 slides and 170 negatives from various locations and dates. The items have been compiled into one folder and two photograph albums.
The folder consists of:
1 photographic portrait in an envelope stamped with 'The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, James T White & Co, New York'. Undated.
16 photographs filed together by the author in a folder titled FL + PL (folder now discarded). Butter paper is adhered to each photo. Undated.
Album 1 consists of:
27 colour photos from Bitwat, Papua New Guinea. Undated.
74 colour photos filed together by the the author in a folder titled 'Biwat photos' (folder now discarded). Includes five typescript captions. Undated.
92 colour photographs from the Wantata Waterhole and surrounding areas in south-western Queensland (including Birdsville and Windorah). Handwritten annotations are on the back of nine of the photographs. Undated.
74 colour photos and 3 black and white photos filed together by the the author in a folder titled 'Australian fieldwork + other' (folder now discarded). Undated.
Album 2 consists of:
55 colour photographs loose at the time of acquisition, seemingly from different locations and dates. Handwritten annotations are on the back of four of the photographs. Two of the photographs are dated 2000.
3 black and white photographs loose at the time of acquisition. Undated.
163 negatives loose at the time of acquisition, seemingly from different locations and dates. Undated.
60 slides in 'Kodachrome slide' frames. Filed together by the author in an untitled box (box now discarded). Undated.
16 slides containing images of the author. Filed together by the author in an untitled box (box now discarded). Undated.
2 slides and 4 negatives. Filed together by the author in a folder titled PhD (folder now discarded). Undated.
3 negatives. Filed together by the author in a folder titled FL + PL (folder now discarded). Undated.
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Unrestricted access.
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In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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- English
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Box 3 Folder 11, Albums 1-2
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Created, KM, 24-Feb-2025.