Ayres, Mary Clifton

• Data Set Title: Mary Clifton Ayres papers
• Primary Data Collector: Ayres, Mary Clifton
• Description: Materials documenting ethnological research in the Morehead region of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, 1979-1981. Research was primarily with speakers of the Tonda dialects of the Morehead-Upper Maro language group.
• Data and Document Types: Dissertation, fieldnotes, stories, genealogies, notes on marriage exchanges, audio recordings of stories and songs.
• Research Topics: Kinship, marriage, social structure.
• Discipline: Social/cultural anthropology
• Region: Pacific Islands
• Country: Papua New Guinea
• Language: Morehead-Upper Maro
• Nature of Collection: Physical collection is a component of the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San diego. Collection is stored off-site, request in advance.
• Finding Aid: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0113a.html