IDNO

T.68411.MFL

Description

Place

Oceania Melanesia; ?Papua New Guinea; ?Urubwa River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Professor Ann Chowning

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

27 May 1967

Collection Name

Macfarlane Collection

Source

Macfarlane, Alan

Format

Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.67481 to T.68999 and T.74937 to T.74998 were found in the box now numbered C494/.
T.68391 to T.68411 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/48/.

Named Person: Professor Ann Chowning
"She came to Victoria University of Wellington from the University of Papua New Guinea where she was Associate Prof of Anthropology and Dean of Arts. She died in Auckland on February 25 2016.
Born in Little Rock Arkansas, Ann attended Bryn Mawr College and received her PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to teach at Barnard College, Columbia University before becoming a Senior Research Fellow at ANU prior to assuming her position at UPNG. After retiring from VUW Prof Chowning moved to Auckland where she regularly participated in seminars and other academic activities with a wide group of friends and colleagues in anthropology and related disciplines.
She was, even in the 1970s, a rare and fine example of the American ‘four-field’ approach to anthropology which demanded knowledge of pre-history, culture, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Her expertise in archaeology came from work in Tikal Guatemala and New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Her socio-cultural fieldwork in Molima, Kove, Lakalai and Sengseng (PNG) established her as a respected and accomplished fieldworker as well as linguist of Austronesian languages. She also published on female fertility in her fieldwork sites." [Source http://www.asaanz.org/blog/2016/3/5/memorial-service-for-prof-ann-chowning, JD 9/27/2016]