Robert L. Welsch teaches at the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth, New Hampshire.

Introduction
M. O'Hanlon

Chapter 1. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts
H. Gardner

Chapter 2. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904
R. Buschmann

Chapter 3. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea
M. Quinnell

Chapter 4. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898
E. Edwards

Chapter 5. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911
C. Ballard

Chapter 6. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea
R.Welsch

Chapter 7. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians
M. Young

Chapter 8. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles
C. Kaufmann

Chapter 9. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism
C. Gosden

Chapter 10. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist
C. Knowles

Epilogue
N. Thomas

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index