True Echoes
True Echoes
True Echoes
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), this research project will transform global understanding and awareness of the rich cultural heritage of indigenous communities in the Pacific region.
The project will utilise recently digitised copies of wax cylinder ethnographic recordings that were originally made by British anthropologists during pioneering research in the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These recordings mark the inaugural use of sound in anthropological research and are included in the UNESCO Memory of the World register in recognition of their unique cultural heritage status.
The project will enhance the visibility and accessibility of these recordings to researchers around the world. It will do so in partnership with the communities whose cultures the recordings represent, enabling new understanding that is informed by local knowledge and cultural memory. We will work with partner institutions in Australia and the Pacific to establish interoperability between our respective catalogues and metadata. This will result in new long-term pathways and platforms for the sharing of documentation and knowledge about indigenous Oceanic cultural heritage.
Alongside this international activity, the project team will research the audio collections at the British Library alongside parallel primary sources in other formats held at partner institutions in the UK. The results will showcase the opportunities for digital reconnection and re-integration of historic collections that are now dispersed across different institutions.
The project will also encompass critical methodological reflection on the impact of reconnecting cultures with their documented cultural traditions in this way, as well as illustrating the value of audio as a primary source for anthropological and broader interdisciplinary research.
Collection Details
Now showing 1 - 9 of 9
- Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C83) Research Document(2022)Barnecutt, VickyThis research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection, which is part of the British Library’s Royal Anthropological Institute Cylinder Collection (C83). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording activity, the collection history, the numbering systems, and other collections (eg artefacts, photographs) related to the cylinder recordings. It also lists information about each cylinder, including metadata and a photo of the lid. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80) – Torres Strait Islands cylinders Research Document(2022)1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, WHR Rivers and Arthur M Hocart 1908, New Georgia group, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C108) Research Document(2022)Barnecutt, VickyThis research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s WHR Rivers and Arthur M Hocart 1908, New Georgia group, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C108). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording activity, the collection history, the numbering systems, and other collections (eg artefacts, photographs) related to the cylinder recordings. It also lists information about each cylinder, including metadata and a photo of the lid. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1904 Cylinder Collection (C62) Research Document(2022-06-22)1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, John Layard 1914-1915 Atchin, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C177) Research Document(2022)Barnecutt, VickyThis research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s John Layard 1914-1915 Atchin, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C177). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording activity, the collection history, the numbering systems, and other collections (eg artefacts, photographs) related to the cylinder recordings. It also lists information about each cylinder, including metadata and a photo of the lid.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Paul Montague 1914 Gondé, New Caledonia Cylinder Collection (C671) Research Document(2022)Barnecutt, VickyThis research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Paul Montague 1914 Gondé, New Caledonia Cylinder Collection (C671). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording activity, the collection history, the numbering systems, and other collections (eg artefacts, photographs) related to the cylinder recordings. It also lists information about each cylinder, including metadata and a photo of the lid.2 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Thomas Edge-Partington 1909-1914 British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C83) Research Document(2022)Barnecutt, VickyThis research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Thomas Edge-Partington 1909-1914 British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection, which is part of the British Library’s Royal Anthropological Institute Cylinder Collection (C83). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording activity, the collection history, the numbering systems, and other collections (eg artefacts, photographs) related to the cylinder recordings. It also lists information about each cylinder, including metadata and a photo of the lid. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80) – British New Guinea cylinders Research Document(2022)2 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, Bronislaw Malinowski 1915-1918 Trobriand Islands, Territory of Papua Cylinder Collection (C46) Research Document(2022)8