Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture 13

Foreword

Collecting for the nation: Sir William MacGregor and the Official collection

Becoming a collection (1892–2001): challenges and practices in the curation of the Official collection at the Queensland Museum

The more beautiful and gorgeous birds of British New Guinea

Social interactions and field collecting 1888–1889: William MacGregor’s first six months in British New Guinea

Locating MacGregor in the field: a study of labels, markings and inscriptions in the Official and Personal collections

Viewing cross-cultural interactions through assemblage analysis of the late nineteenth century Official collection from British New Guinea

Regional differences in the Official collection: a pilot study of contact histories

War and peace: two radically different encounters with the Marind-Anim

The Goromani incident: seeking spoils from opportunistic theft in the Official collection from early colonial British New Guinea

Conus armshells in British New Guinea: the effects of economic change on cross-cultural engagement

Pottery from Collingwood Bay in the Official collection from British New Guinea: the Wanigela style and the social relations of its distribution

Troublesome objects: the travels of arrows

Theory versus practice in the duplicate selections from the British New Guinea Official collection

Legacy, gifts and desires: Sir William MacGregor’s Personal collection

Exhibiting the MacGregor collections

Appendices