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Photographic prints relating to Board for Anthropological Research expeditions; historical and studio portraits of Australian Aborginal people; foreign ethnology and cranial collections.

Archive Collections / Dr Joseph Benjamin Birdsell / Photographic prints relating to Board for Anthropological Research expeditions; historical and studio portraits of Australian Aborginal people; foreign ethnology and cranial collections.
Collection: Dr Joseph Benjamin Birdsell
Quantity:    12   Albox folders.
Arranged: Chronological by subject
Series Identifier: AA689/04

This Series can been broken down into five major sub-series. The first, AA 689/4/1 to AA 689/4/1/4, comprises portrait and profile photographs of individuals who were examined during the Board for Anthropological Research (BAR; see AA 346) expeditions to Koonibba, South Australia 1928; Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, 1929 and McDonald Downs, Northern Territory, 1930. JB Birdsell was not a participant in these expeditions.

The second sub-series, AA 689/4/2/1to AA 689/4/2/2, comprises photographs taken during the Harvard and Adelaide Universities expedition of 1938-39 and the University of California Los Angeles expedition of 1952-54 in which JB Birdsell was a participant.

The third sub-series, AA 689/4/3/1 to AA 689/4/3/2, comprises photos of historical importance collected by JB Birdsell from commercial photographic studios, institutions and other collections.

The fourth sub-series, AA 689/4/4/1 to AA 689/4/4/2, comprises photographs of individual subject photographs of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka, and numerous photographs of foreign ethnology from the Americas, Africa and Asia.

The fifth sub-series, AA 689/4/5/1 to AA 689/4/5/2, consists of morphological photos of Australian Aboriginal crania from the South Australian Museum collection, photographed in 1947.

The JB Birdsell collection of photographs were assigned numbers 1-1600, however this appears to be simply a numerical account and has no functional bearing on the collection. The photographs have been re-ordered into sub-series relating to expeditions and research.

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Included Items
AA 689/4/1/1 - Copies of Board for Anthropological Research Sociological Photographs from Expeditions D-F, 1928-1930.
AA 689/4/1/2 - Copies of Board for Anthropological Research Sociological Photographs from Expeditions G-H, 1931-32.
AA 689/4/1/3 - Copies of Board for Anthropological Research Sociological Photographs from Expeditions I-J, 1933-34.
AA 689/4/1/4 - Copies of Board for Anthropological Research Sociological Photographs for Expeditions K-O, 1935-39.
AA 689/4/2/1 - Photographs from the Harvard and Adelaide Universities expedition, 1938-1939.
AA 689/4/2/2 - Photographs from the University of California Los Angeles and University of Adelaide expedition, 1952-1954.
AA 689/4/3/1/1-22 - Historical Photographs Volume 1: Contact Prints for Kerry & Co. Photographers
AA 689/4/3/1/23-54 - Historical Photographs: Volume 1: Arthur Atkinson
AA 689/4/3/1/55-80 - Historical Photographs: Volume 1: Ted Ryco, G Wood and Unknown Photographers
AA 689/4/3/1/81-131 - Historical Photographs: Volume 1: JW Beattie, CA Woolley, HA Frith, Bishop FR Nixon, Bishop HH Montgomery, Rev. J Fereday
AA 689/4/3/1/132-150 - Historical Photographs: Volume 1: WE Roth
AA 689/4/3/2 - Historical Photographs: Volume 2
AA 689/4/4/1 - Foreign Ethnology Photographs: Volume 1. Veddas people Sri Lanka.
AA 689/4/4/2 - Foreign Ethnology Photographs: Volume 2. The Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
AA 689/4/5/1 - Australian Aboriginal Cranial Photographs - 'Northern'
AA 689/4/5/2 - Australian Aboriginal Cranial Photographs - 'Southern'