George E. B. Morren Papers

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Descriptive Summary

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla 92093-0175

Title: George E. B. Morren Papers

Creator: Morren, George E. B.

Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0802

Physical Description: 10.2 Linear feet (26 archives boxes, 1 map case folder, 2 flat box folders, 2 tubes, and 4 films)

Physical Description: 4.81 GB of digital files

Date (inclusive): 1920-2011

Abstract: Papers of George E. B. Morren, American anthropologist who was among the first to use remote sensing satellite technology for field research before GPS devices were available to consumers. He used their forerunners to investigate human and environmental change in Papua New Guinea, specifically the Telefomin district of the Sandaun province.

Languages: English .

Scope and Content of Collection

Papers of George Morren, American anthropologist who was among the first to use remote sensing satellite technology for field research, before GPS devices were available to consumers. He used their forerunners to investigate human and environmental change in Papua New Guinea, specifically the area of the Miyanmin people living in the Telefomin District of the Sandaun province. The collection includes letters from Morren's colleagues and professional contacts, field research and topical notes, extensive photographic documentation of Morren's study of the region, maps, data, and diagrams of the region's ecological changes over time, and a small selection of writings by Morren and other anthropologists studying the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

The collection is divided into four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) PAPUA NEW GUINEA FIELD RESEARCH, 3) WRITINGS, and 4) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.

Biography

George Edward Bradshaw Morren was born in West Brighton, Staten Island in 1939. He graduated from Columbia University in 1960, earning a bachelor's degree in anthropology. After graduation, Morren served in the U.S. Navy until 1963 when he returned to Columbia for graduate school, earning a PhD in 1974. His thesis, "Settlement Strategies and Hunting in a New Guinea Society," was made possible by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and Graduate Fellowship awarded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Morren taught anthropology for several years, first as an assistant professor at State University of New York at Binghampton, then moving to Rocky Hill, New Jersey where he was professor of anthropology at Cook College (renamed as the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences), part of Rutgers University for over 40 years. At Rutgers, Dr. Morren helped to develop a new program in Human Ecology in 1973, held leadership positions as department chair and curriculum coordinator, and made groundbreaking contributions in the new academic fields of Ecological Anthropology and Human Ecology. In 1976 he co-authored a textbook Ecology, Energetics, and Human Variability: Elements of Anthropology with Michael Little, and continued to publish scholarly articles relating to his studies on the Miyanmin [Mianmin] people and ecology of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Morren was an early adopter of remote sensing satellite technology, Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) later renamed LANDSAT, a predecessor to GPS to investigate sociological and environmental changes in Papua New Guinea. Morren was granted awards for some of his research, including research funding from The National Science Foundation from 1991-1994. He retired from teaching in 2009.

In addition to his extensive field research and teaching, Dr. Morren was a member of the American Anthropological Association, and he also served as Mayor of Rocky Hill, New Jersey from 2005 to 2008 in order to help protect the city from an environmental disaster. Morren died on September 29, 2011.

In 2013, Lost Child – Sayon's Journey, an award-¬winning documentary film about the Cambodian genocide was posthumously dedicated to Morren who, along with his wife, documentary filmmaker Janet Gardner, played a key role in the development of the film. From 2016 through 2017, The Morris Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate in Morristown, New Jersey presented an exhibit on Morren's research and his collections of artifacts, natural specimens, and information about his fieldwork.

Preferred Citation

George E. B. Morren Papers. MSS 802. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 2017, 2021-2022

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Digital Content

Selected materials from the collection have been digitized (films and some photographs). There is one folder of born-digital photographs that may be surrogates of some original materials, described in the container list.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Sandaun Province

Mianmin (Papua New Guinean people)

Remote sensing -- Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea -- Sandaun Province

Morren, George E. B. -- Archives

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically, include Morren's professional correspondence as well as personal letters from friends, family and correspondents in Papua New Guinea. Also included is a small selection of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence during his fieldwork in Papua New Guinea from 1968-1969.

Box 1, Folder 1

433rd Troop Carrier Group (TCG) - Includes photographs 1990

Box 1, Folder 2

Aerial photography correspondence 1969-1989

Box 1, Folder 3

American Philosophical Society (APS) - Research grant "A Narrative and Visual History of Contact in the Upper Sepik" 1990

Box 1, Folder 4

Ballard, Chris (Australian National University) - Includes Ethnobotany of Huli terms 1994

Box 1, Folder 5

Bercovitch, Eytan - Ancestral Relations in the Altbalmin Border Area 1993

Box 1, Folder 6

Bishop Museum (Allen Allison, Assistant Director of Research) 1991

Box 1, Folder 7

Blinkoff, Robbie and Belinda, Mekil Wildlife Management Area 1995-1998

Box 1, Folder 8

Brown, Paula and Buck Schieffelin 1992

Box 1, Folder 9

Craig, Barry (Pangkalilla, Australia) 1984-1991

Box 1, Folder 10

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), regarding aerial photography 1989

Box 1, Folder 11

Family correspondence 1967-1969

Box 1, Folder 12

Fischer, Keyt - Ecology of the Montane Cuscus 1989-1994

Box 1, Folder 13

Friend, Tony 1990

Box 1, Folder 14

Frodin, David G. 1993-2003

Box 1, Folder 15

Gammage, Bill - Includes copies of important research 1989-1993

Box 1, Folder 16

Gardner, Don - West Miyanmin research 1976-1977

Box 1, Folder 17

Gibbs, Harold R. 1988-1993

Box 1, Folder 18

Haynes, Norman 1989-1990

Box 1, Folder 19

Hays, Terence - "The New Guinea Highlands" 1993

Box 2, Folder 1

Hide, Robin - Includes "Megapodes in the Mountain Ok Culture Area: A Brief Note" 1998-2003

Box 2, Folder 2

Huston, William C. - Correspondence regarding the Ken Garden photo album with identifications 1988-1989

General note

The Ken Garden photo album is located in PHOTOGRAPHS series (Box 7, folder 5).

Box 2, Folder 3

Hyndman, David 1967-1987

Box 2, Folder 4

John Ward Williams Party correspondence 1989-1990

Box 2, Folder 5

Lae Herbarium, Papua New Guinea (M. Galore and J. Wormersley) 1969-1983

Box 2, Folder 6

Melk-Koch, Marion - Regarding notes on Thurnwald expedition 1990-1991

Box 2, Folder 7

Menzies, James I. (University of Papua New Guinea; National Museum and Art Gallery) 1957-1989

Box 2, Folder 8

Min Health Service correspondence re: donation 2001

Box 2, Folder 9

Mountain Ok correspondence and survey responses 1982-1986

Box 2, Folder 10

Papua New Guinea correspondence, includes carbon copies of Morren's outgoing correspondence 1968-1969

Box 2, Folder 11

Papua New Guinea correspondence, includes letters from correspondents in Papua New Guinea 1967-2004

Box 2, Folder 12

Parker, Fred 1969-1970

Box 2, Folder 13

Schiefenhoevel, Wulf 2001

General note

Includes article for "The Mek and Their Neighbours."

Box 2, Folder 14

Smith, Jean 1993

Box 2, Folder 15

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. Regarding J. Ward Williams film preservation project 1990-1993

Box 2, Folder 16

Tyler, Michael J. (The South Australian Museum) undated

Box 2, Folder 17

UC Berkeley, regarding the Thurnwald expedition 1990

Box 2, Folder 18

Waters, Ray - Correspondence and notes 1989

Box 2, Folder 19

Wheatcroft, Wilson 2002

Box 2, Folder 20

Miscellaneous 1989-1999

PAPUA NEW GUINEA FIELD RESEARCH

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) PAPUA NEW GUINEA FIELD RESEARCH. Arranged in five subseries: A) Field Notebooks, B) Photographs, Negatives and Slides, C) Maps, Diagrams and Oversized Images, D) Subject/Topical Files, and E) General Field Research and Data.

A) Field Notebooks: Arranged chronologically, include Morren's notes from the 1960s through the 1990s on topics such as kinship, material culture, language, history, and flora and fauna. Also included are language and vocabulary workbooks from villagers from 1964-1965.

B) Photographs, Slides, and Audiovisual Recordings: Highlights include Morren's extensive photographic documentation of the region comprising of prints, slides, and archived negatives of village life, flora and fauna, as well as aerial photographs; and the Ken Garden photograph album acquired by Morren, which documents RAAF pilot Stuart Campbell's flights in the 1930s and include historical early aviation photographs from approximately 1920-1937. Ken Garden was a close associate of Campbell's, who operated in the Sepik River Valley and was among the earliest documented visitors to the region. Also, of note are the scrapbooks of the Ifitamin Glider Landing photographs which include images of and by Roger D. Thorson, a WWII U.S. Army glider pilot who took documented village life in Papua New Guinea around 1945. Also included are 4 16mm films of aerial views recorded in 1973.

C) Maps, Diagrams and Oversized Images: An extensive collection of maps and diagrams of the region, including some hand drawn maps of villages, vegetation and population diagrams and data, as well as Morren's sequential aerial photographs of the May River and settlements in the Telefomin District.

D) Subject/Topical Files: Arranged alphabetically include Morren's notes and files on topics and prominent researchers in the field.

E) General Field Research and Data: Arranged alphabetically, highlights include Morren's field data including his extensive collection, "Herb labels, Flora of New Guinea" as well various trip notes and plant, animal and terrain surveys. Also, of note are Morren's language notes, research files and drafts of the dictionary of the Mianmin [Miyanmin] language, a subfamily of the Mountain Ok family of languages of the indigenous peoples of the region.

Field Notebooks

Box 3, Folder 1

Topical notebooks ca. 1960-1965

General note

Kinship terminology and house labor.

Box 3, Folder 2

Topical notebooks ca. 1964-1965

General note

Material culture, language, history.

Box 3, Folder 3-6

Indigenous workbooks - Language and vocabulary lessons ca. 1964-1965

Box 3, Folder 7

Expenses and notes from graduate studies in Papua New Guinea 1968

Box 3, Folder 8-10

Topical field notebooks 1968-1969

Box 4, Folder 1-3

Topical field notebooks 1968-1969

General note

Material culture, photo log, and "bilum book."

Box 4, Folder 4

Language notebook 1969

Box 4, Folder 5

Flora and fauna notebook 1969

Box 4, Folder 6

Stories notebook 1969

Box 4, Folder 7

Field notebooks 1980-1983

Box 5, Folder 1

Miscellaneous notebooks ca. 1985-1990

General note

Includes expenses, notes on Western society/sexual revolutions, research books.

Box 5, Folder 2

Miscellaneous pocket notebooks ca. 1980-2012

General note

Includes address book and miscellaneous notes.

Box 5, Folder 3-4

Field notebooks 1989-1993

Box 5, Folder 5

General notebook 1991

Photographs, Slides, and Audiovisual Recordings

Box 6, Folder 1

Notes on glider photographs (Bill Gammage) undated

Box 6, Folder 2-3

Ifitaman Glider Landing, photo scrapbook ca. 1945

Box 6, Folder 4-5

Ifitaman Glider Landing - Roger D. Thorson 77-page photographic print album

Box 6, Folder 6

Telefomin Rebellion photographs undated

Box 6, Folder 7-9

Book I - Telefomin Area and Williams Party photographs

Box 7, Folder 1-3

Book II - Thurnwald, Champion, and Williams Party photographs of Fly and May Rivers

Box 7, Folder 4

Ken Garden Photograph Album ca. 1920-1937

General note

Information about the provenance and Morren's acquisition of the album is included in correspondence - Huston, William C. (Box 2, Folder 2).

Box 8, Folder 1-8

Aerial photographs of Central New Guinea, Blucher Range (various aerial runs) 1967-1968

Box 8, Folder 9

Aerial photographs, untitled undated

Box 9, Folder 1

Aerial photographs - Prints: #18 and #19 1969 August

Box 9, Folder 2

Miyanmin Valley life photographs 1969 April-August

Box 9, Folder 3

Miyanmin pig hunting photographs 1969 August

Box 9, Folder 4-8

Photographs and corresponding negatives, Papua New Guinea 1989

Box 9, Folder 9

Photographs and corresponding negatives. Aerial topographic images. Undated

Box 9, Folder 10

Photographs from Papua New Guinea research at the Museum of Folklore, Berlin 1991

Box 9, Folder 11

Slides - "General and Pacific" ca. 1969-1971

General note

Kept in Morren's original order. Topics include food, plants, cultivation techniques, animals, hunting, food preparation and distribution.

Box 10, Folder 1-31

Slides - Some labeled by topic 1968-1989

General note

Includes Sepik village life scenes, Green River and Border Mountains, flora and fauna, sing sing ceremony, and other topics. Some slides were taken by photographers other than Morren.

Box 11, Folder 1-11

Slides - Numbered #1-10, 13 1973

Box 11, Folder 12-15

Negatives - Numbered #1-41 (missing #23)

Box 11, Folder 16

Negatives - Miscellaneous aerial shots 1969

Box 11, Folder 17

Miscellaneous contact sheets - Cassowary, men working

Oversize FS-196

8mm film of Papua New Guinea - Includes I: Aerial view, Ewer [?], Agate, Komer 1973

Oversize FS-197

8mm film of Papua New Guinea - Includes II: Komer, Manep, Monu, Ewer 1973

Oversize FS-198

8mm film of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea - Includes III: Kanganaman Village, Chambri Lake and Maprik District 1973

Oversize FS-199

8mm film of Papua New Guinea - Includes IV: Maprik, Jama, Mt. Hagen 1973

Digital photographs ca. 1969-1990

General

623 JPEG images, scanned from original Morren photographs and/or slides of Papua New Guinea. May include copies of original images held within this collection, as well as some unique content.

Box 26, Folder 3-14

Reel-to-reel sound recordings from the field, 1-2, 7-16 ca. 1971

Maps, Diagrams, and Oversized Aerial Photographs

Box 12, Folder 1

Maps and sketches - Includes sketch from Map of Journeys of the Hagen-Sepik Patrol 1938-1939

Box 12, Folder 2

Maps - Territorial and Ethnic Groups and Hak River Settlement. Includes map 2-9 1957-1970

Box 12, Folder 3

Mapping notes and transects ca. 1960-1969

Box 12, Folder 4

Maps - Tutuila Island, Jimi and Simbai Rivers, and Kunoga-Middle Jimi 1962

Box 12, Folder 5

Maps - Aitape Sub-D and language families in Central New Guinea 1962-1964

Box 12, Folder 6

Miscellaneous maps, Papua New Guinea ca. 1964-1979

Box 12, Folder 7

Topographical maps of rivers - May, Yap, Stolle, and Idam 1966

Box 12, Folder 8

Ifitaman maps and data ca. 1969

Box 12, Folder 9

Explanatory notes to the Vegetation Map of Papua New Guinea, Land Research Series No. 35 1975-1979

Box 12, Folder 10

Map of Konedobu Town and Port Moresby Harbour undated

Box 12, Folder 11

Maps - Mountain Ok undated

Box 12, Folder 12

Maps and notes, New Guinea Highlands undated

Oversize TS-93, Folder 1

Wameimin, Unamo, and Wabia genealogies 1979

Oversize TS-93, Folder 2

Map - Territorial and ethnic groups 1972

Oversize TS-93, Folder 3

Maps and diagrams - May River and vicinity 1957-1970

Oversize TS-94, Folder 1

Aerial photographs and corresponding maps - Telefomin district undated

Oversize TS-94, Folder 2

Interpopulation diagram undated

Oversize TS-94, Folder 3

Hand drawn map - Mabwe, Bobliak, Amalo, Usali II, Wamesoke, Kome Teinsoka, Ihoten undated

Oversize TS-94, Folder 4

Royal Australian Survey Corps Maps - East Miamin field data compiled by Morren 1967-1969, 1972

Oversize TS-94, Folder 4

Mean annual rainfall (probable) and population density data 1967-1969, 1972

Oversize FB-565, Folder 1

Sequential aerial photos of May River 1967 December 9

General note

Photos are approximately 3.5 inches apart and is run 13w photos 5070 to 5104.

Oversize FB-565, Folder 2

Sequential aerial photos of May River 1968 August 1

General note

Photos are approximately 3.5 inches apart and is run 11c photos 5001 to 5098.

Oversize MC-034, Folder 7

Hak River Settlement, map and transparencies ca. 1957-

General Field Research and Data

Box 13, Folder 1

2nd Archbold New Guinea Expedition research 1991

Box 13, Folder 2

Amusep Kiyongsining interview transcript 1981 April 1

Box 13, Folder 3

Animal collection data - Rodents, bats, marsupials 1981-1989

Box 13, Folder 4

Australian New Guinea Administration Unit (ANGAU), military report 1944

Box 13, Folder 5

Baliem River/Shangri-La materials, includes photographs 1945-1990

Box 13, Folder 6

Bird call tape contents undated

Box 13, Folder 7

Bishop Museum/UCSD air photos lists 1989

Box 13, Folder 8

Botanical survey of the Central Range Mountains and Sepik River Basin, Jacinto Regalado, W. Takeuchi, and Robin Foster. Proposal ca. 1995

Box 13, Folder 9

Box, Daniel T. and Manford Susman search ca. 1993

Box 13, Folder 10

Collect sheets 1981

Box 13, Folder 11

Comments on "Hunting and the Faunal Community" list undated

Box 13, Folder 12

Consolidated Tokples Species list for Monal Transects 1993

Box 13, Folder 13

Documentation of UPSP photos 1990

Box 13, Folder 14

Duranmin/Asabano - Plants and animals, notes

Box 13, Folder 15

East Mianmin Mammal Collection III - Summary of Information 1981

Box 13, Folder 16

Enga Law and Order Project, Papua New Guinea 1982

Box 13, Folder 17

Ethnobotanical records

Box 13, Folder 18

Europe trip notes 1991

Box 13, Folder 19

Faunal collection info. 1981

Box 13, Folder 5

Field correction list from Dibose 1993

Box 13, Folder 5

Field data - Flora of New Guinea [Essig Palm Collection and Hoover, reintegrated collection of 1970s.] 1970

Box 14, Folder 1-8

Field data - Herb labels, Flora of New Guinea 1981-1992

Box 15, Folder 1

Figures and notes undated

Box 15, Folder 2

Fox Brothers Diary, 1934-1935, includes correspondence 1990-1991

Box 15, Folder 3-4

The Frieda/Nena Copper and Gold Mine

Box 15, Folder 5

Gibbs/Simmons - 1944 Glider Landing at Ifitaman photos 1944

Box 15, Folder 6

GIS data planes notes

Box 15, Folder 7-8

Ground truth data forms used in data collecting

Box 15, Folder 9

Hagen-Sepik Patrol attack undated

Box 15, Folder 10

Healey plant list from Telefol dictionary ca. 1994

Box 26, Folder 1-2

Index cards of scientific and vernacular names of Papua New Guinea flora and fauna

Box 15, Folder 11

Ifitaman glider landing notes 1989-1990

Box 15, Folder 12

"Lost tribes" materials 1993

Box 15, Folder 13

Materials from the Lowrie and Kroeber Collections, UC Berkeley, Letters from R. Thurwald, photocopies ca. 1920-1949

Box 16, Folder 1

The Mek and their Neighbours, notes on conference

Box 16, Folder 2

Mianmin [Miyanmin] Dictionary (Smith/Weston)

Box 16, Folder 3

Mianmin Murders - Sepik District report, copy 1957

Box 16, Folder 4

Mianmin [Miyanmin] language notes and references

Box 16, Folder 5

Mianmin name logs - New Guinea village births and deaths

General note

George Morren's recording of names, births, and deaths of Miyanmin people he studied as a graduate student (subject of his dissertation).

Box 16, Folder 6

Michael Bird expedition 1993-1995

Box 16, Folder 7

Miscellaneous lecture announcement, notes ca. 1989

Box 16, Folder 8

Miyanten/Onto language putative word lists

Box 16, Folder 9

Monal transect list and tree study 1993

Box 16, Folder 10

Morren notes on New Guinea 16

Box 16, Folder 11

Mountain Ok bibliography 1992

Box 16, Folder 12

Moylan-Oksapmin/Bimin - Ethnobotanical terms

Box 17, Folder 1

Notes - "The Last Frontiers" by James Sinclair undated

Box 17, Folder 2

Notes - B. Jones dissertation Faiwol village

Box 17, Folder 3

Notes - Remote Sensing Lab

Box 17, Folder 4

Official Geographic Report by the Kaiserin-Augusta River and its Basin, Expedition 1912-1913 on the Island of New Guinea by Walter Behrmann, photocopy of report 1917

Box 17, Folder 5

Oksapmin dictionary undated

Box 17, Folder 6

Panorama von Maanderberg, copies of ethnological documents from the department and museum of anthropology

Box 17, Folder 7

Partial list of terrestrial vertebrates and Miyanmin terminal taxa

Box 17, Folder 8

Papua New Guinea trip notes and itinerary 1993

Box 17, Folder 9

Permit to enter the Territory of Papua New Guinea 1968

Box 17, Folder 10

Plant and animal vernacular name survey

Box 17, Folder 11

Plant database collection undated

Box 17, Folder 12

Plant family, genus and species list

Box 17, Folder 13-14

Plants of the Miyanmin

Box 18, Folder 1

Plot selection sheets, research notes undated

Box 18, Folder 2

Provincial Data System Rural Community Register, West Sepik

Box 18, Folder 3

Report on the Telefomin Murders of the Sixth of November 1953

Box 18, Folder 4

"Rules" and attributes, list of contrasts

Box 18, Folder 5

Special glider mission information 1992-1993

Box 18, Folder 6

Special Patrol Hagen to Ifitamin 1990 June 6

Box 18, Folder 7

Stuart Campbell diaries 1936

Box 18, Folder 8

Survey - Mountain Ok Human Ecology Survey undated

Box 18, Folder 9

Telefomin dictionary by Healey and Steinkraus, Morren copy

Box 18, Folder 10

A Tentative List of Frogs Present in the East Mianmin Area with Folk Taxa

Box 18, Folder 11

Terrain Study, notes on Sepik region

Box 18, Folder 12

Tifal/Busil Early Contract (Wheatcroft Hr) undated

Box 18, Folder 13-14

Transects - plots and notes 1992-1993

Box 18, Folder 15-16

Trap/Line data 1981 and undated

Box 18, Folder 17

Village tree survey

Box 18, Folder 18

Vocabulary notes undated

Box 18, Folder 19-20

Waypoints/UTM's for DF [David Frodin], Telefomin/Ititamin 1992 and undated

Box 18, Folder 21

Wopkaimin plants data entry records - "List of useful plants by Wopkaimin name"

Box 18, Folder 22

Writing program ca. 1994

Subject/Topical Files

Box 19, Folder 1

Arrow poison research, notes and correspondence

Box 19, Folder 2

Cognitive behavior

Box 19, Folder 3

Conservation and environment in Papua New Guinea

Box 19, Folder 4-5

Craig, Barry - Research, and Report to the Wenner-Gren Foundation 1968-1997

Box 19, Folder 6

Disturbance notes undated

Box 19, Folder 7

Elsmore quest 1990

Box 19, Folder 8

Flora and fauna research

Box 19, Folder 9

Gardner, Don, research

Box 19, Folder 10

German research on Papua New Guinea 1980-1983

Box 19, Folder 11

Health and medicine in Papua New Guinea

Box 19, Folder 12

Hunting, cultivating and gardening

Box 20, Folder 1-2

Indigenous plants and animals in Papua New Guinea undated

Box 20, Folder 3-4

Landsat Worldwide Reference System searches, background and research notes undated

Box 20, Folder 5-6

Mammal collection and research 1968-1989

Box 20, Folder 7

Min peoples

Box 20, Folder 8

Mining impact

Box 20, Folder 9

Mountain Ok research

Box 20, Folder 10

Native salt making/mining 1965-1973

Box 20, Folder 11

New Guinea Singing Dog research 1992

Box 21, Folder 1

Subsistence farming Papua New Guinea

Box 21, Folder 2

Taro research undated

Box 21, Folder 3

Taxonomy and classification notes

Box 21, Folder 4

Thorson, Roger - Notes and correspondence 1989-1993

General note

Thorson's photograph album is included in the photograph series (Box 6, folders 4-5).

Box 21, Folder 5

Thurston, J. A. expedition research

Box 21, Folder 6

Tiesler, Frank research 1970-1984

Box 21, Folder 7

Tubers and vernacular names, research

Box 21, Folder 8

Van Deusen (Hobart M.) research on mammals 1957-1971

Box 21, Folder 9

Ward Williams, J. - Includes correspondence with Los Angeles County Natural History Museum 1990

Box 21, Folder 10

Wheatcroft tidal (ethnographic terms and notes)

Box 21, Folder 11

Wild pig research 1961-1978

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Writings by Morren, and B) Writings by Others.

A) Writings by Morren: A selection of Morren's articles and papers, including his 1964 doctoral dissertation from Columbia University, as well as drafts and notes of Morren's significant scholarly articles and book chapters. Of note is "A Preliminary Vernacular Guide to the Vegetation of Northern Telefomin District, Papua New Guinea," by George E. B. Morren and David G. Frodin.

B) Writings by Others: A small selection of writings by key figures in the field of anthropology whose research relates to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Of note is a draft of Ancestral Treasures of Papua New Guinea "Samtin Bilong Tumbuna" by Barry Craig, Australian anthropologist and Curator of Anthropology at the Papua New Guinea National Museum & Art Gallery; Morren's research copies of Len Odger's diary and letters from 1942, and explorer RAAF Squadron Leader Michael James "Mick" Leahy's World War II letters regarding Ifitamin and Eunice Airstrip from 1944-1945. Also included are Morren's wife Janet Gardner's draft writing, reseach and notes for her articles on Papua New Guinea. Includes copies of Gardner's 1981 articles "Between Two Cultures" and "Papua New Guinea: A Nation Growing Up Fast."

Selected Writings by Morren

Box 21, Folder 12

Highland New Guinea Social Organization: An Explanation 1964

Box 21, Folder 13

Lowries's Attitude Toward Economic Explanations 1964

Box 21, Folder 14

The Old Woman of Kelaifoten 1968

Box 21, Folder 15-17

Settlement Strategies and Hunting in a New Guinea Society, doctoral dissertation ca. 1970

Box 22, Folder 1

A Small Footnote to the 'Big Walk': Environment and Change Among the Miyanmin of Papua New Guinea 1977 May 13

Box 22, Folder 2

National and Local Development in Papua New Guinea: The View from Telefomin 1982 March 20

Box 22, Folder 3

New Technology and Regional Studies in Human Ecology: A Papua New Guinea Example ca. 1987-1990

Box 22, Folder 4

The Myth of Strategic War: An Anthropological Perspective on the Arms Race 1987

Box 22, Folder 5

Whatever Happened to Boserup? The Use and Abuse of the Boserup Model in Studies of Cultural Evolution in the New Guinea Highlands ca. 1988

Box 22, Folder 6

A Remote Sensing Investigation of Human Activity and Forest Disturbance: First Annual Project Report to the NSF 1988-1993

Box 22, Folder 7

A List of Mammals Collected in the East Miyanmin Area, Telefomin District, Sandoun Province, Papua New Guinea, graduate paper draft ca. 1989

Box 22, Folder 8

Why the Miyanmin are Growing More Kaukau: A Local Test of Some Evolutionary Models for Montane New Guinea ca. 1989

Box 22, Folder 9

J. Ward Williams in Papua New Guinea, 1932-1937: A Newly Discovered Film - Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting 1989-1992

Box 22, Folder 10

Miyanmin, A Summary 1990

Box 22, Folder 11

Remote Sensing and Controlled Comparison: An Application to the Mountain Ok Region, Papua New Guinea, includes draft and research prospectus 1990

Box 22, Folder 12

Foragers in New Guinea?: (Maybe) The Wrong Question 1991

Box 22, Folder 13

New Approaches in Land Use Studies for Environmental Management in Papua New Guinea ca. 1991

Box 22, Folder 14

Synthesis and Preliminary Action Plan. Conservation and Environment in Papua New Guinea: Establishing Priorities 1991

Box 22, Folder 15

A Preliminary Vernacular Guide to the Vegetation of Northern Telefomin District, Papua New Guinea, by George E. B. Morren and David G. Frodin 1992

Box 22, Folder 16

Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation Policy in Papua New Guinea ca. 1993

Box 22, Folder 17

The Emergent Model of Cultural Evolution in Montane New Guinea ca. 1997

Box 23, Folder 1

Human Mortality and Social and Environmental Transformations in the Hak Valley 1998

Box 23, Folder 2

Miyanmin Taxonomy and the Food Quest: A Behavioral Approach to Linguistic Categories undated

Box 23, Folder 3

Miyanmin: Past, Present and Future Indefinite undated

Box 23, Folder 4

Mianmin Leaders and Distinction between Big Men & Great Men, rough draft undated

Box 23, Folder 5

Chainsaw: A Role-Play Scenario on Tropical Deforestation for Large Audiences or Classes undated

Box 23, Folder 6

The Frieda/Nena Copper and Gold Mine, writing chapter undated

Box 23, Folder 7

The Cultural Context of Nena. Includes Dan Jorgdensen, George Morren and Rune Paulsen's Summary Reports undated

Selected Writings by Others

Box 23, Folder 8

Bercovitch, Eytan - Ancestral Relations in the Altbalmin Border Area 1993

Box 23, Folder 9

Craig, Barry - Ancestral Treasures of Papua New Guinea "Samtin Bilong Tumbuna" 1987

Box 23, Folder 10

Cuthbert, Richard - Beacon Ecology: The Sustainability of Huntin in Papua New Guinea, report 2003

Box 23, Folder 11

Ehlers, Manfred, Edwards, Geoffrey et al. - Remote Sensing with Geographic Information Systems: A Necessary Evolution ca. 1989

Box 23, Folder 12

Flannery, T. F. & Seri, L. - The Mammals of Southern West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea 1990

Box 24, Folder 1-3

Gardner, Janet - Papua New Guinea draft writing, research and notes. Includes copy of Gardner's article, "Between Two Cultures" 1981

Oversize FB-565, Folder 3

Gardner, Janet - Article "Papua New Guinea: A Nation Growing Up Fast" 1981 July 5

Box 24, Folder 4

Hiepko, Paul and Schultze-Motel, Wolfram - Man, Culture and Environment in the Central Highlands of W. New Guinea 1981

Box 24, Folder 5

Hide, R. L. - Seasonality and Chimbu Pig Husbandry ca. 1979

Box 24, Folder 6

Leahy, Michael J., Squadron Leader, RAAF - Letters re: Ifitamin and Eunice Airstrip 1944-1945

Box 24, Folder 7

Michel, Thomas - Articles and word list (Mek/Ok)

Box 24, Folder 8

Odger, Len - Diary and letters, copies 1942

Box 24, Folder 9

Porter Poole, Fitz John - The Erosion of the Sacred Landscape: European Exploration and Cultural Ecology among the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea; Between 'Classic' Highlands and 'Fringe' Highlands... ca. 1982

Box 24, Folder 10

Reynders, J. J. - Shifting Cultivation in the Star Mountains Area ca. 1962

Box 24, Folder 11

Snel, Mathilde - The Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems to Third World Conservation Efforts; A case study of Indonesia's Natural Resource Management 1990 September

Box 24, Folder 12

Taylor, James L. - Journey through yesterday: a story about major James L. Taylor 1944

Box 24, Folder 13

Weeks, Sheldon and University of Papua New Guinea - Malnutrition in Oksapmin, "Good Gardens Make Good Food"

Box 24, Folder 14

West, Paige - A comprehensive study of hunting in Papua New Guinea integrating Ecology and Anthropology in a GIS model for the formulation of socially sound scientific wildlife management plans 2002 October

Box 24, Folder 15

Whitehead, Harriet - Naming Game with the Aid of Pictures in Papua New Guinea, (Seltaman fauna research) 1995

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Primarily grant proposals and reports to agencies such as the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research conference and grant materials, and a small selection of records highlighting Morren's participation in professional anthropological organizations and committees. Absent are Morren's Rutgers University teaching files.

Box 25, Folder 1

Academic proposal - FASP leave [Cook College, Rutgers} 1997

Box 25, Folder 2

Biodiversity Committee, Rutgers ca. 1980

Box 25, Folder 3

Kew Gardens visit and determinations 1993

Box 25, Folder 4

Morris Museum - The People of Northern Papua New Guinea: From the Research and Collection of Dr. George E. B. Morren, exhibit brochure 2016

Box 25, Folder 5

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) application 1991-1992

Box 25, Folder 6-8

National Science Foundation Grants (NSF)- Change in Papua New Guinea Tropical Forests; Remote Sensing Investigation 1988-1996

Box 25, Folder 9

Rutgers University Research Council (RURC), grant application 1990

Box 25, Folder 10

Sabbatical leave 2001

Box 25, Folder 11

The National Archives research - Includes correspondence with Richard Smith, Cartographic and Architectural Branch 1991

Box 25, Folder 12

Upper Sepik proposal 1990

Box 25, Folder 13-14

Washington, D.C. trip notes 1988-1991

Box 25, Folder 15

Wenner-Gren Grant - Restoration of Papua New Guinea Ethnographic Film 1990-1991

Box 25, Folder 16

Wildlife Conservation International (WCI) Honolulu Conference 1991