AAAS

Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

AIATSIS

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

AM

Australian Museum

ANSTO

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

ANU

The Australian National University

ARC

Australian Research Council

CAP

College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU

CBAP

Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific

EFO

Etablissements Français de l’Océanie (the French Establishments of Oceania)

EMB

Ethnological Museum in Berlin

ETS

Eastern Torres Strait

IAS

Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna

JPS

Journal of the Polynesian Society

LMS

London Missionary Society

MAA

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

MARKK

Museum am Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World, Hamburg

MHS

Massachusetts Historical Society

MKB

Museum der Kulturen Basel (Museum of Cultures in Basel)

MSC

Missionaires du Sacré-Coeur (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart)

MTI

Musée de Tahiti et des Îles (Museum of Tahiti and the Islands), Puna‘auia

NHM

Natural History Museum, Vienna

NLA

National Library of Australia

NMS

National Museums Scotland

NZAA

New Zealand Archaeological Association

OM

Otago Museum, Dunedin

PAAP

Pacific Area Archaeology Program

PMA

Penn Museum Archives (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

PNG

Papua New Guinea

POC

Papuan Official Collection

POW

prisoner of war

pXRF

portable x-ray fluorescence

RJM

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Cultures of the World, Cologne

RSPacS

Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU

SEO

Société des Etudes Océaniennes (Society for Oceanic Studies)

SOAA

School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU

SVD

Societas Verbi Divini (Society of the Divine Word)

TAFEA

Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and Aniwa province

UCB

University of California, Berkeley

UPNG

University of Papua New Guinea

UWA

University of Western Australia

VKS

Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (Vanuatu Cultural Centre)

WTS

Western Torres Strait

XPL

cross-polarised light