Henry Goronwy Alun Hughes,
Papers
MSS 0047
Series X. Source materials, principally collections relating to Pacific languages
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1. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Marshalls District [collection of printed regulations, ordinances, directives and other official circular documents (in English and Marshallese), and copies of Majuro Times v.1 no.1, December 1951 and of Head and Hands v.II no.9, March 1951]
2. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Ponape District [collection of printed documents, including district orders, regulations (most in Ponapean) and reports on Contemporary Ponapean Land Tenure, June 1951 (with valuable appendix on land vocabulary) and History of Education, Ponape District, 1946-51] 1949-51 with copies of some 1913 documents
3. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Truk District [collection of printed regulations, district orders, court procedure, forms and schedules (in English and Trukkese), report on Native Land Tenure 1950, minutes of Truk Education Meetings August 1951, Language memorandum 10 September 1951, Petitions of Natives of Truk District [1949?], issues of Truk Tide and Simpungen Chuuk September 1951]
4. Copies of official documents 1944-48 from the files of the District Office, Ellice Islands, March 1952 relating to claim by the islanders of Vaitupu, Nukufetau and Nukulaelae to Niulakita (used by Hughes in publication The ownership of Niulakita)
5. [Ellice Islands language materials] Original files of the Gilbert and Ellice islands Colony: MP no.2 of 1943 on Death of Apelila of Funafuti (1942-43); F3/3/1 on Publishing Ellice Islands Magazine [Tala o Tuvalu] (1948-51); letters of F. Penitala and others 1939 and 1945-46, copies of official correspondence on lands matters and ordinances 1920, 1936-37, 1947-51, and samples of forms in Ellice islands language
6. Papers on education, language, religion, land laws, agriculture, culture and colonial administration of Micronesia from courses at Hoover Institute, School of Naval Administration, Stanford University and US Naval Postgraduate School Course in Naval Administration. 1946 and c 1948-49. ['J.E. Tovin: anthropologist Marshall Islands in 1950s' and 'ex files of Majuro District Administration, Marshall Islands' written on covers of some parts of this collection by Hughes]
Note that a typescipt 'Notes on Marshall Islands for the use of U.S. Forces' has been separately catalogued for the Pacific collection
6a. Miscellaneous printed items relating to administration of Micronesia: 1932, 1948, 1950, 1955
7. ['Education in the South Sea Islands under Japanese Mandate' 1932; Presidential address by George P. Murdock, Society for Applied Anthropology 1948; press release re study of transfer of Pacific trust territories by Dr. John Nichols 1950; issue of News Letter of the Institute of Ethnic Affairs 1950 re first South Pacific Conference; agenda paper of United Nations Trusteeship Council re Conditions in the trust territory of the Pacific Islands July 1955.]
8. Press release re appointment of W.J. Peel as Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 22 December 1948
9. Summary of Arthur Grimble’s A Pattern of Islands, undated [used for teaching purposes in Flintshire county, where the book was a set text for O-levels, c1960s]
10. Maps of the Pacific and individual islands, principally British Solomons c1910-50
11. Miscellaneous papers re Aboriginal Australians, including open letter from Olive Pink to all members of the Canberra Conference on Native Affairs, February 1948, article by Raymond Firth on aboriginal paintings, and a few pamphlets and newspaper cuttings
12. Notes on and sources for James Chalmers
13 Miscellaneous notes and lists of sources (including on Maori population of New Zealand, on language and on history of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony)
14. Miscellaneous announcements/lists/publications of the Pacific relating to:
- Societies, organisations, conferences, lectures/talks and exhibitions
- Bibliographies, announcement of publications, booksellers catalogues
- Websites
- Courses
- Tour/travel agent booklets, travel writings
