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We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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'Original Display Drawings Melanesian Hall' [Pacific Islands Gallery], South Australian Museum

Archive Collections / Harold Edgar Burrows / Series AA45/03 / 'Original Display Drawings Melanesian Hall' [Pacific Islands Gallery], South Australian Museum

Series AA 45/3 comprises approximately 70 pencil drawings by HE Burrows showing arrangement of items in display cases for the Melanesian Hall/Pacific Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum. The drawings are numbered by case number, and show items and object numbers (numbers are in ink). The series of drawings is not complete, and they are on varying sizes of paper. These drawings were probably made by Burrows during the second half of the 1940s when he and NB Tindale (see AA 338) were re-organising and renovating the Gallery.

The arrangement of objects shown does not correspond exactly with the 2003 arrangement of objects in display cases.

For a history of the Gallery see: C Henn and B Craig, 'The Pacific Cultures Gallery in the South Australian Museum', Records of the South Australian Museum, 32 (1), 1999, pp. 69-89.

CreatorHarold Edgar Burrows
ControlAA 45/3
Date Range1945  -  1950
Quantity 2cm,    
FormatsDrawings
Series AA45/03
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