Archives and Art at the University of Canterbury

To find Archives and Art in the Macmillan Brown Library, search our art and archives database Ka Kohika. Also check out the guide on how to use Ka Kohika.To get an idea of what we have, start with our selected Pacific resources tab.

Other Archive collections with Pacific material include:

• National Archives of Fiji
• National Archives of Samoa (Facebook page)
• Tuvalu National Library & Archives. See digitised documents at the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme EAP005 and EAP110/1.
• Archives New Zealand
• The Western Pacific Archives at the University of Auckland Library. 
  These contain the records of the British colonial administration in the Western Pacific from 1877-1978. They include The Solomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati and Tuvalu), New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and Tonga.
  To find what they include and how to search them read their guide. To search the archvies use the search box on the Manuscripts and Archives page.
• Turnbull Library
• National Archives of Australia
• National Archives. (UK)
  Search at Discovery. You can refine by “Available for download only” to find full text material.
  For an introduction to the resources, see their research guides particularly Colonies and dependencies from 1782- 
• PRA - Pacific Research Archives at the Australian National University.
• PAMBU - Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. Some of their material is online and some is held on microfilm in the Macmillan Brown Library.