Pacific Research: Collections and archives

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Dating back to 1892. Early issues of the Journal contain a rich repository of indigenous texts and traditions contributed by Pacific peoples, as well as by missionaries and other sojourners, often published in local languages with English translations.

Collections managed by the National Library including the Te Puna web directory to selected New Zealand, Māori and Pacific Island websites.

Collections of digitised documentary materials relating to the history, culture and people of the Pacific region including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia and New Zealand listed on the National Library of Australia website including Pacific resources.

Research material about the Pacific Islands including company and trade union records, records of anthropologists, linguists, geographers and historians who lived and worked in the Pacific.

A major repository for research materials created by anthropologists and other scholars working in Melanesia.

Books and journals on the history, culture, art, fiction and language of the Pacific islands. Includes mission history and Pacific anthropology/ethnology journals.

Audio recordings and video recordings of performance, narrative, singing, and other oral tradition, mainly from the Pacific region.