Correspondence 1921-1959 [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 567942
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Collocott, E. E. V. (Ernest Edgar Vyvyan), 1886-
- Description:
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- Canberra Pacific Manuscripts Bureau [19--]
- One microfilm reel 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB ; 28.
- Summary:
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The correspondence reflects Dr. Collocott's many Tongan interests. Correspondents include E. W. Gifford, Herbert E Gregory, Sidney H. Ray and the Polynesian Society.
- Biography/History:
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Dr. Collocott, who was born in 1884, served as a Methodist missionary in Tonga from 1911 to 1924. During his career in Tonga and afterwards, he wrote numerous papers on Tongan myths, legends, history, language, customs and astronomy for Mankind, the journal of the Polynesian Society, Folklore and the special publications of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. This work involved him in correspondence with many of the leading Pacific scholars of the day.
- Notes:
- Microfilm copy of original held by Mitchell Library, Sydney.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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