Ernest Chinnery

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Ernest Chinnery
Middle Sepik anthropologist.jpg
Australian anthropologist Ernest Chinnery at work in the middle Sepik, 1920s
Born
Ernest William Pearson Chinnery

(1887-11-05)5 November 1887
Died17 December 1972(1972-12-17) (aged 85)
NationalityAustralian
Other namesChin
OccupationAnthropologist
Spouse
(m. 1919; died 1970)

Ernest William Pearson Chinnery (5 November 1887 – 17 December 1972) was an Australian anthropologist and public servant.[1] 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).

References

  1. ^ West, Francis. "Chinnery, Ernest William Pearson (1887–1972)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 18 March 2020.