Ernest William Pearson Chinnery (5 November 1887 – 17 December 1972) was an
Australian
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anthropologist
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and public servant.
He worked extensively in
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
and visited communities along the
Sepik
The Sepik () is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the second largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly River. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea (PNG) provinces of Sandaun (formerly West Sepi ...
river.
Bibliography and sources
*Chinnery Papers (Australian National Library)
*E. J. B. Foxcroft, Australian Native Policy (Melb, 1941)
*C. D. Rowley, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society (Canb, 1970);
*Northern Territory, Annual Report, 1938–39; New Guinea, Report on the Administration of the Territory, 1938–39;
*Government Gazette (Commonwealth), 14 Sept 1939
*D. J. F. Griffiths, The Career of F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist of Papua, 1922–1943 (M.A. thesis, Australian National University, 1977)
*Gilbert Murray papers (National Library of Australia); A56, A73, A452 59/6066, 6067, A518 C828/2 (National Archives of Australia).
References
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Australian anthropologists
1887 births
1972 deaths
20th-century anthropologists