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Collections and Curators: South Australian Museum Anthropology from the 1860s to the 1920s

This article first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of SA, no.16 1988, pp,87-103 and is republished here with minor corrections.

Dr Philip Jones has worked as a curator at the South Australian Museum since 1984. A graduate in history from the University of Adelaide, he pursues interests in Aboriginal-European frontier history, material culture, and the history of anthropology and collecting.

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