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Names

Name PrimaryD. Garner Jones Fiji Collection

Name AlternateJohnson Fiji Collection

IDs

ID LocalSAMA 4

ID Urihttp://www.justpacific.com/fiji/sam/index.html

Descriptions

Brief Description140 objects collected by David Garner-Jones, purchased by J.A. Johnson in 1900 and donated to the South Australian Museum. Garner-Jones was headmaster at Levuka Public School. Collection includes tapa cloths, ornaments, weapons, household items.

RightsCopyright to photographs of the collections: Rod Ewins

NoteResearched by Dr Rod Ewins. Publication: Ewins, R. 2007 The perils of ethnographic provenance; the documentation of the Johnson Fiji Collection in the South Australian Museum. In, Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 33-67. Online note: Online as part of the entire Fiji collections (almost 900 objects) of the South Australian Museum, all of which has been photographed and annotated by Dr Rod Ewins. Related External Collections: Garner-Jones collection in the Burke Museum (USA); see www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ethnology/collections/advanced.php?archives=0&lc=mel&NAME=&CULTURE_OF_ORIGIN =Fiji&MAKER_OR_ARTIST=&DESCRIPTION=&SUBJECT=&SOURCE=Dr.+Garner+Jones&x=28&y=12

Subjects

pontAnthropological specimens; Domestic equipment; Ornaments; Tapa cloths; Weapons

scotArtefacts; Indigenous peoples

person_orgDavid Garner Jones; J.A. Johnson

localDavid Garner Jones; Ethnographic; Fiji; J.A. Johnson

aptEthnology; Indigenous artefacts

Coverage Spatial

TextFiji

Coverage Temporal

From1894

To1900

Related Collections

Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-18 17:37