Professor Jack Golson, of the Department of Prehistory in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, gathered most of these documents in 1990 for a paper which he was preparing on cultural policies in Papua New Guinea. The majority of the documents were originally accumulated by Douglas L. McIver, Assistant Secretary, Social Development Branch, Dept of External Territories. In 1995 Professor Golson gave the papers to Barry Craig to assist him with his research on the management of material culture in PNG. The papers are now held in the South Australian Museum Archives.
The papers document the contributions of academics, the UNESCO program on Oceanic cultures, the Australian Department of Territories and the PNG Administration to the development of cultural institutions in PNG, including the National Museum and Art Gallery, the University of PNG Creative Arts Centre, an Institute of PNG Culture, the South Pacific Festival of the Arts, the Fellows Collection of Melanesian Artefacts, Commonwealth Literature Bureau and Ethnic Art Committee. They include documents relating to export of cultural property, cultural exchanges, ethnomusicology and PNG writing.
From the description of Papers on cultural policy in Papua New Guinea [microform]. 1969-1976. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224389716
