Reports

Progress Report, June 2011

Funding for the project ($170,000 over two years) came to an end in November 2010. To preserve as much funding as possible for the salary of the Research Associate, Dr Andrew Fyfe, the Partner Investigator, Dr Barry Craig, paid for Website …

Progress Report, November 2009

In March 2009, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was awarded to Andrew Fyfe by the University of Adelaide for his thesis, Gender, mobility and population history: exploring material culture distributions in the Upper Sepik and Central New …

Progress Report, February 2009

Since the completion of his PhD thesis last year, Andrew Fyfe has been working with craftsperson Jill Bolton, writing a paper for publication on the technical aspects of string bag and arrow construction. This paper reports the units of …

Progress Report, June 2008

As noted in the February 2008 report, the process of data collection and photographing of 12,000 objects from the study region presently held in museums and private collections in South Australia, ACT, NSW, Queensland, Papua New Guinea, …

Progress Report, February 2008

The process of data collection and photographing of 12,000 objects from the study region presently held in museums and private collections in South Australia, ACT, NSW, Queensland, Papua New Guinea, United States, Canada, England, Austria, …

Progress Report, October 2007

As reported in April, the process of data collection and photographing of 12,000 objects from the study region presently held in museums and private collections in South Australia, ACT, NSW, Queensland, Papua New Guinea, United States, …

Progress Report, April 2007

The process of data collection and photographing of 12,000 objects from the study region presently held in museums and private collections in South Australia, ACT, NSW, Queensland, Papua New Guinea, United States, Canada, England, Austria, …

Annual Report, January - December 2006

Collection of data for the USCNG Project has occupied Andrew Fyfe, assisted in Sydney and for a short time in Port Moresby by Barry Craig, for almost two years. During 2006, Andrew Fyfe visited Europe for a second time to record data in …

Progress Report, September 2006

Collection of data for the USCNG Project has occupied Andrew Fyfe, assisted in Sydney and for a short time in Port Moresby by Barry Craig, for almost two years. There is still one collection of approximately 200 items for which a list and …

Progress Report, June 2006

The second European trip to document Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea collections in Basel, Berlin, Gottingen and Bergen was undertaken from 9th April to 13th May 2006. This trip was a supplementary one that was a result of the Museum der …

Progress Report, April 2006

This second visit to Port Moresby took place from 19th March to 1st April. I spent ten days working at the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery finishing work for the project that had been started in the previous year.

Progress Report, January 2006

The trip to document Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea collections in Europe was undertaken from the 29th October to 23rd December 2005. The planning stages of the European leg took place for several months prior to my departure. The museums …

Progress Report, September 2005

The trip to document Mountain Ok collections in the United States of America was undertaken from the 9 July to 1 August 2005 and was followed by a visit to the University of Queensland's Anthropology Museum where from 16 August to 19 August …

Progress Report, June 2005

After completion of the recording of collections in the Australian Museum in Sydney, Andrew entered into the database all the available field and registration data applicable to the relevant collections in the PNG National Museum. This was …

Progress Report, December 2004

The Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project, funded for three years under the ARC-Linkage program, commenced 16 August 2004. Andrew Fyfe, the APAI post-graduate student, arrived in Adelaide that day to commence work with the project; he was …

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