Board for Anthropological Research
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The Board for Anthropological Research sponsored over forty anthropological expeditions to study Australia
n Aboriginal people in the five decades following its establishment in 1926.
Although the work of the Board was focussed on physical anthropology, the expeditions also resulted in research across a range of fields, such as linguistics and botany, and also broader aspects of anthropology, including the documentation of social organisation, tribal/language boundaries and songs and ceremony.
The records of the Board for Anthropological Research, (and related collections held in the South Australian Museum
Archives), contain detailed information in a range of formats about many Australian Aboriginal groups and individuals. The collection comprises: minutes; drafts and proofs of publications; papers related to expeditions; data cards; genealogies; photographic prints and negatives; crayon drawings; and film.
The Board was formed by
Draper Campbell,
(Sir) John Cleland
,
Henry Fry
Frederic Wood Jones
,
Robert Pulleine,
and
Archibald Watson.
Numerous South Australian Museum
employees and presidents of the Royal Society of South Australia
have been members of the Board, including:
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n Aboriginal people in the five decades following its establishment in 1926.
Although the work of the Board was focussed on physical anthropology, the expeditions also resulted in research across a range of fields, such as linguistics and botany, and also broader aspects of anthropology, including the documentation of social organisation, tribal/language boundaries and songs and ceremony.
The records of the Board for Anthropological Research, (and related collections held in the South Australian Museum
South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum is a museum in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands.-History:...
Archives), contain detailed information in a range of formats about many Australian Aboriginal groups and individuals. The collection comprises: minutes; drafts and proofs of publications; papers related to expeditions; data cards; genealogies; photographic prints and negatives; crayon drawings; and film.
The Board was formed by
Draper Campbell,
(Sir) John Cleland
John Burton Cleland
Sir John Burton Cleland CBE was a renowned Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist.-Early Life and education:...
,
Henry Fry
Frederic Wood Jones
Frederic Wood Jones
Frederic Wood Jones , usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia....
,
Robert Pulleine,
and
Archibald Watson.
Numerous South Australian Museum
South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum is a museum in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands.-History:...
employees and presidents of the Royal Society of South Australia
Royal Society of South Australia
The Royal Society of South Australia is a Learned Society whose interest is in Science, particularly, but not only, of South Australia.The Society stems directly from the Adelaide Philosophical Society founded on the 10 January 1853. The title "Royal" was granted by her Majesty Queen Victoria in...
have been members of the Board, including:
- AA Abbie
- TD Campbell
- JB ClelandJohn Burton ClelandSir John Burton Cleland CBE was a renowned Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist.-Early Life and education:...
- FJ Fenner
- HK Fry
- CJ Hackett
- HM Hale
- T Harvey Johnston
- F Wood JonesFrederic Wood JonesFrederic Wood Jones , usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia....
- RH Pulleine
- TG Strehlow
- NB Tindale
- A Watson