Description:

'The Mono-Alu people (Bougainville Strait, West Solomon Islands)'

Date(s) of creation:	c 1943
Level:	Collection
Format:	Archive

Reference number:

MS 184245

Summary:

Incomplete manuscript and typescript drafts of an anthropological study of the Mono-Alu people of the Bougainville Strait, West Solomon Islands, authored by G. C. W. C. Wheeler. The study includes detailed observations on Mono-Alu culture, including kinship, religion, marriage, ownership and death rites. Includes photographs and a glossary of the Mono-Alu language. Also in box, connection unexplained, typescript London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Library information booklets for students including: An Abridged Classification for Small Medical Libraries, by Cyril C. Barnard, 1949; Staff Schedule allocating duties to Library staff; a 'brief outline of scheme used to classify books and pamphlets' (but not journals); a copy of the Library rules; a copy of the Library's 'Outline of the Classification Scheme for the use of Student's, 1948

Main author:

Wheeler; Gerald Clair William Camden (1872-1943); anthropologist

Extent:

2 boxes

Admin history:

G. C. W. C. Wheeler (1872-1943) an anthropologist. In 1908-1909, Wheeler conducted field research amoung the Mono-Alu people of the Bougainville Strait, West Solomon Islands. He spent the later part of his life working on an unpublished anthroplogical account of the culture of the Mono-Alu people.

Acquisition:

Presented to SOAS Library by the widow of G. C. W. C. Wheeler on the 4th November 1965.

Access status:

Open

User restrictions:

For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance

Language:

English
Mono (Solomon Islands)

Related material:

SOAS also holds G. C. W. C. Wheeler's manuscript notes on the Mono-Alu people of Bougainville Strait, West Solomon Islands [MS 170822].

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