Papers [manuscript]. 1928-1954.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1928-1954.

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Collection includes the following: 1. Personal items such as correspondence (1928-1954) passport, diary, etc. 2. Items dealing with education and teaching of various disciplines such as history, social studies and so on; mass literacy; education in Papua New Guinea (government policy, organization of schools); training of nurses, teachers, midwives, etc. 3. Lecture notes on anthropology, Baganda, Chukchee, funeral rites and kinship. 4. Various papers to do with people living in the Pacific area. 5. Six volumes of photographs, Dec. 1932 to 1954, of life in Manam Island, Territory of New Guinea and in Nauru Island. Typescript drafts, with manuscript interpolations of Miss Wedgwood's work titled "A background documentary survey on the education of women and girls in the Pacific". Five typescript papers by other authors concerning theories and problems of native education in New Guinea.

4.48 m. (32 boxes)

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Wedgwood, Camilla H. (Camilla Hildegarde), 1901-1955

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Anthropologist and educator. Camilla Wedgwood studied anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge between 1920-1924. She undertook fieldwork from 1932-1934, studying the lives of women and children on Manam, and in 1935 studied the revival of native arts and crafts on Nauru. She was appointed Principal of the Women's College within the University of Sydney from 1935-1944. She also served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs within the Australian Army Medical Wo...