Taylor, R and Jones, M and McCarthy, G, Stories in Stone: an annotated history and guide to the collections and papers of Ernest Westlake (1855-1922), The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (2017) [Curated Exhibition]
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Official URL: http://www.westlakehistory.info/
These papers relate to three large stone collections formed by English amateur scientist Ernest Westlake from about 1870 to 1920: 13,033 Tasmanian Aboriginal stone implements, an estimated 10,000 English paleaoliths, eoliths and fossils and more than 4,000 French eoliths.
The story of Ernest Westlake and the collections he formed is brought to life in the 2017 book by Rebe Taylor, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity.
Ernest Westlake had formal training in geology (University College London 1873-1875) but, as these papers reveal, his wide-reaching research interests included psychical phenomena, cultural evolution and anthropology. This archive represents much of Westlake's life's work, including some papers relating to the project for which he is most famous: the establishment of the alternative Boy Scouts movement, The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, in 1916.
|Item Type:||Curated Exhibition|
|Keywords:||papers collection, Tasmania archaeology, anthropology, museum|
|Research Division:||Indigenous Studies|
|Research Group:||Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sciences|
|Research Field:||Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge management methods|
|Objective Group:||Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture|
|Objective Field:||Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture|
|UTAS Author:||Taylor, R (Dr Rebe Taylor)|
|Deposited By:||College Office - CALE|
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