Context (CMS Context)
[Added later in pencil] Box 4 ‘1922.300 B is missing. T.Domin, 13/12/07’
Event Date 22/11/2007
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
‘Catalogue card notes originally for 1922.300 A-D: “ 4 arrows - reed shafts - palm wood extension - bone point.” [Added later in pencil] ‘A,C,D’.
Event Date 22/11/2007
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Register notes the source as 'Prof T. G. Bonney'

The Bonney collection, noted variously as from Prof Bonney or T.G Bonney, had been recorded with T.G. Bonney as the collector and donor based on the catalogue cards and registers. However, it is most likely that the objects were collected by Frederic Bonney and given to his brother, Rev. Professor Thomas George Bonney, as with the Major Wetherall collection.

Frederic Bonney (1842- 1921), a grassier, photographer and amateur anthropologist, collected material while at Momba sheep station, 1865- 1881, and on route back to England via Hawaii in 1881. This was given to, or passed on his death, to his brother, Thomas George Bonney, (1833- 1923), a tutor at St John's College, Cambridge and lecturer in geology from 1868, and Professor of geology in University College London, 1877- 1901.

Archival research by Ian Coates at MAA in 2015 highlighted letters from T. G Bonny in the 1922 uncatalogued correspondence files regarding the gift of his late brother Frederic's collections which suggested that Frederic was the initial field collector and source of much of his collection. See also references in Jeanette Hope and Robert Lindsay (2010) THE PEOPLE OF THE PAROO RIVER FREDERIC BONNEY’S PHOTOGRAPHS.

Some objects have cards or labels that note other collectors and suggest that T. G Bonney's collection had multiple sources, e.g. W. H. Watson or R. E. Guise, etc. Guise may be the Mr Guise who accompanied T.H Bonney and Poondary, one of Bonney’s major informants during night photography, noted without a reference in the draft ms version of Hope and Lindsay’s book, (2010.22), https://aboriginalstudies.wikispaces.com/file/view/Bonney_book4_1stHalf.pdf

The records have subsequently been updated to reflect the multiple collectors and give T. G. Bonney as a subsequent rather than the primary collector of the material.
Event Date 6/3/2018
Author: rachel hand