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BLYTH, Aliston: notes on the 'Tedi River Tribes' of Papua New Guinea


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 31

Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Title: BLYTH, Aliston: notes on the 'Tedi River Tribes' of Papua New Guinea

Date(s): 1922

Level of description: collection

Extent: 2 items

Name of creator(s): Blyth | Aliston | fl 1920-1922

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Aliston Blyth went on an expedition in Papua New Guinea with Mr Lyons in search of Drexler and Bell, 1920. Nothing further is known about him.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript anthropological notes by Aliston Blyth on the 'Tedi River Tribes' of Papua New Guinea, with an accompanying letter from Blyth to A R Minks of the Royal Geographical Society, 22 Jul 1922.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Original order

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Finding aids:

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anthropology
Ethnic groups

Personal names
Blyth | Aliston | fl 1920-1922

Corporate names

Places
Papua New Guinea | Oceania