Organization:Board for Anthropological Research
The Board for Anthropological Research sponsored over forty anthropological expeditions to study Australia n Aboriginal people in the five decades following its establishment in 1926.
Although the work of the Board was focussed on physical anthropology, the expeditions also resulted in research across a range of fields, such as linguistics and botany, and also broader aspects of anthropology, including the documentation of social organisation, tribal/language boundaries and songs and ceremony.
The records of the Board for Anthropological Research, (and related collections held in the South Australian Museum Archives), contain detailed information in a range of formats about many Australian Aboriginal groups and individuals. The collection comprises: minutes; drafts and proofs of publications; papers related to expeditions; data cards; genealogies; photographic prints and negatives; crayon drawings; and film.
The Board was formed by Draper Campbell,[1] (Sir) John Cleland,[2] Henry Fry[3] Frederic Wood Jones,[4] Robert Pulleine,[5] and Archibald Watson.[6]
Numerous South Australian Museum employees and presidents of the Royal Society of South Australia have been members of the Board, including:
- A.A. Abbie
- T.D. Campbell[1]
- J.B. Cleland[2]
- F.J. Fenner
- H.K. Fry[3]
- C.J. Hackett
- H.M. Hale
- Thomas Harvey Johnston
- F. Wood Jones[4]
- R.H. Pulleine[5]
- T.G. Strehlow
- N.B. Tindale
- A. Watson[6]
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