The Calvert Scientific Expedition to New Guinea

Record summary

Nineteenth-century expeditions and missionary networks in New Guinea collected weapons, ornaments, tools, and human remains while producing maps and ethnographic descriptions. The named expedition and collecting records associated with British, German, Dutch, and missionary actors provide leads for tracing how Pacific artefacts entered European museums. They matter for distinguishing archaeological context from colonial collecting and for investigating provenance, classification, and repatriation. Specific expedition titles and object records must be checked rather than generalized. This is AI-recalled, source quality 5, corroboration 0.