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Australian anthropologist
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Male
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5 November 1887(Waterloo, Australia)
Death:
17 December 1972(Prahran, Australia)
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Biography
Introduction
Ernest William Pearson Chinnery (5 November 1887 – 17 December 1972)was an Australian anthropologist and public servant. He worked extensively in Papua New Guinea and visited communities along the Sepik river.
Bibliography and sources
- Chinnery Papers (Australian National Library)
- E. J. B. Foxcroft, Australian Native Policy (Melb, 1941)
- C. D. Rowley, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society (Canb, 1970);
- Northern Territory, Annual Report, 1938–39; New Guinea, Report on the Administration of the Territory, 1938–39;
- Government Gazette (Commonwealth), 14 Sept 1939
- D. J. F. Griffiths, The Career of F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist of Papua, 1922–1943 (M.A. thesis, Australian National University, 1977)
- Gilbert Murray papers (National Library of Australia); A56, A73, A452 59/6066, 6067, A518 C828/2 (National Archives of Australia).